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title: While urban migration, development projects, and modernisation are b… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: While urban migration, development projects, and modernisation are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis on the extended family remain integral parts of everyday life. Who acts: urban migration. A se
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# The Gambia, sentence 293

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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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While urban migration, development projects, and modernisation are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis on the extended family remain integral parts of everyday life.

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**Who acts:** urban migration · **What happens:** bring, remain, form · **To what, where:** more Gambians, contact, integral parts, extended family, dress

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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 (urban migration), 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:293
# text = While urban migration, development projects, and modernisation are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis on the extended family remain integral parts of everyday life.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	modernisation	modernisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	Gambians	Gambian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	values	value	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
36	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	integral	integral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · progressive | urban migration and development projects and modernisation | more Gambians |  | contact with Western habits and values and indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gambian=Theme into contact=Destination |
| 2 | **remain** | present |  | integral parts of everyday life |  | the extended family |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Attribute |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | dress and celebration |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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