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title: Each year, adherents of Serer religion make the annual pilgrimage to… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Each year, adherents of Serer religion make the annual pilgrimage to Sine in Senegal for the Xooy divination ceremony. Who acts: adherents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 346

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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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Each year, adherents of Serer religion make the annual pilgrimage to Sine in Senegal for the Xooy divination ceremony.

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**Who acts:** adherents · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** annual pilgrimage

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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 (adherents), 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:346
# text = Each year, adherents of Serer religion make the annual pilgrimage to Sine in Senegal for the Xooy divination ceremony.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	adherents	adherent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Serer	Serer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sine	Sine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Senegal	Senegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Xooy	Xooy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	divination	divination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | adherents of Serer religion | the annual pilgrimage |  |  | year | to Sine in Senegal; for the Xooy divination ceremony | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product for ceremony=Asset |

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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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