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title: In 2010, Musa Saidykhan, former editor of The Independent newspaper,… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2010, Musa Saidykhan, former editor of The Independent newspaper, was awarded US$200,000 by the ECOWAS Court in Abuja, Nigeria. Who acts: ECOWAS Court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 373

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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 2010, Musa Saidykhan, former editor of The Independent newspaper, was awarded US$200,000 by the ECOWAS Court in Abuja, Nigeria.

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**Who acts:** ECOWAS Court · **What happens:** award · **To what, where:** Musa, 2010

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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 (ECOWAS Court), 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:373
# text = In 2010, Musa Saidykhan, former editor of The Independent newspaper, was awarded US$200,000 by the ECOWAS Court in Abuja, Nigeria.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Musa	Musa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	Saidykhan	Saidykhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	$	$	SYM	$	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	200,000	200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ECOWAS	ECOWAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **award** | past · passive | the ECOWAS Court in Abuja and Nigeria | Musa |  | 2010 |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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