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title: Though these soldiers fought mostly in Burma, some died closer to ho… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Though these soldiers fought mostly in Burma, some died closer to home and a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is in Fajara (close to Banjul). Who acts: soldiers, some, Commission cemetery. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 62

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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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Though these soldiers fought mostly in Burma, some died closer to home and a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is in Fajara (close to Banjul).

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**Who acts:** soldiers, some, Commission cemetery · **What happens:** fight, die, be · **To what, where:** Burma, Fajara

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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 (soldiers, some, Commission cemetery), 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:62
# text = Though these soldiers fought mostly in Burma, some died closer to home and a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is in Fajara (close to Banjul).
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Burma	Burma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Graves	Graves	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Commission	Commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Fajara	Fajara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	appos	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Banjul	Banjul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | this soldiers |  |  | Burma |  | mostly *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | some |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | a Commission cemetery |  |  | Fajara |  |  | tree rules |

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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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