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title: In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar in The Hag… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar in The Hague, accusing its military of genocide against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya community. Who acts: Gambia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 199

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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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In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar in The Hague, accusing its military of genocide against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya community.

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**Who acts:** Gambia · **What happens:** file, accuse · **To what, where:** case, military

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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 (Gambia), 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:199
# text = In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar in The Hague, accusing its military of genocide against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya community.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Gambia	Gambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	filed	file	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	accusing	accuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	genocide	genocide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Rohingya	Rohingya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **file** | past | the Gambia | a case |  |  | november | against Myanmar in the Hague | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient |
| 2 | **accuse** | gerund | the Gambia *not said here* | Hague's military of genocide |  |  |  | against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya community | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent military=Theme |

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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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