Cameroon, sentence 14
From Wikipedia, «Cameroon», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
What happens: federate, form · To what, where: British Cameroons, 1961, Federal Republic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cameroon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Cameroons | case |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Cameroons | amod |
| 6 | Cameroons | cameroon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | federated | federate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Cameroons | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 federated | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1961 | case |
| 11 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 federated | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 form | mark |
| 13 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 federated | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Republic | det |
| 15 | Federal | Federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Republic | amod |
| 16 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 form | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Cameroon | case |
| 18 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Republic | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | federate | participle | British Cameroons not said here | 1961 | with part | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument | |||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | the Federal Republic of Cameroon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme |
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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