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title: It originally consisted of The Gambia National Army (GNA), trained b… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: It originally consisted of The Gambia National Army (GNA), trained by the British, and Gambia National Gendarmerie (GNG), trained by the Senegalese. Who acts: stipulation, Senegalese. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 211

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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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It originally consisted of The Gambia National Army (GNA), trained by the British, and Gambia National Gendarmerie (GNG), trained by the Senegalese.

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**Who acts:** stipulation, Senegalese · **What happens:** consist, train · **To what, where:** Gambia National Army, Gambia National Gendarmerie

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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 (stipulation, Senegalese), 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:211
# text = It originally consisted of The Gambia National Army (GNA), trained by the British, and Gambia National Gendarmerie (GNG), trained by the Senegalese.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Gambia	Gambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	GNA	GNA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	Gambia	Gambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Gendarmerie	Gendarmerie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	GNG	GNG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Senegalese	senegalese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | stipulation |  |  |  |  | of the Gambia National Army; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  | the Gambia National Army *not said here* |  |  |  | by the British | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **train** | participle · passive | the Senegalese | Gambia National Gendarmerie |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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