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title: The UP was seen as the main opposition party, but it lost power from… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: The UP was seen as the main opposition party, but it lost power from 1965 to 1970. Who acts: UP. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 147

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From Wikipedia, [«The Gambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The UP was seen as the main opposition party, but it lost power from 1965 to 1970.

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**Who acts:** UP · **What happens:** see, lose · **To what, where:** UP, power, 1965

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UP), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:The_Gambia:147
# text = The UP was seen as the main opposition party, but it lost power from 1965 to 1970.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UP	UP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1965	1965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | the UP |  |  |  | as the main opposition party | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as party=Attribute |
| 2 | **lose** | past | UP | power |  | 1965 to 1970 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent power=Theme from 1965=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «The Gambia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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