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title: Responsibility for the military has rested directly with the Preside… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Responsibility for the military has rested directly with the President since Jammeh seized power at the head of a bloodless military coup in 1994. Who acts: Jammeh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 222

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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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Responsibility for the military has rested directly with the President since Jammeh seized power at the head of a bloodless military coup in 1994.

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**Who acts:** Jammeh · **What happens:** rest, seize · **To what, where:** Responsibility, power, head

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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:222
# text = Responsibility for the military has rested directly with the President since Jammeh seized power at the head of a bloodless military coup in 1994.
1	Responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Jammeh	Jammeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	bloodless	bloodless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present · perfect · passive |  | Responsibility for the military |  |  |  | with the President; directly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Jammeh | power |  | the head of a bloodless military coup |  | in 1994 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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