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title: No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference to stay in power for an extended period of time. Who acts: Jammeh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 182

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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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No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference to stay in power for an extended period of time.

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**Who acts:** Jammeh · **What happens:** make, indicate, stay, prefer · **To what, where:** reference, preference, power

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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 (Jammeh), 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:182
# text = No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference to stay in power for an extended period of time.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	Jammeh	Jammeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | no reference |  |  |  | term limits *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **indicate** | gerund |  | Jammeh's preference |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot preference=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | power |  | for a extended period of time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location |
| 4 | **prefer** |  | Jammeh |  |  |  |  |  | nom preference «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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