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title: Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, and many senior members of h… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, and many senior members of his party were sent to jail for demanding the release of Solo Sandeng dead or alive. Who acts: leader. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 94

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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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Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, and many senior members of his party were sent to jail for demanding the release of Solo Sandeng dead or alive.

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**Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** send, demand · **To what, where:** many senior members, jail, release, Ousainou

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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 (leader), 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:94
# text = Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, and many senior members of his party were sent to jail for demanding the release of Solo Sandeng dead or alive.
1	Ousainou	Ousainou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Darboe	Darboe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	UDP	UDP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	jail	jail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	demanding	demand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Solo	Solo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Sandeng	Sandeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive | the leader of the UDP *not said here* | many senior members of UDP's party |  | jail |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to jail=Destination |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | the leader of the UDP *not said here* | the release of Solo Sandeng |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme release=Precondition |

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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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