Cameroon, sentence 191
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 northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 300 to 350 m. Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass.
Who acts: northern lowland region, characteristic vegetation · What happens: extend, be · To what, where: Lake, edge
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: who acts (northern lowland region, characteristic vegetation), 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 | 4 region | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 region | amod |
| 3 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 region | compound |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extends | nsubj |
| 5 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extends | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Adamawa | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Adamawa | det |
| 11 | Adamawa | Adamawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 edge | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Lake | case |
| 13 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 extends | obl |
| 14 | Chad | Chad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lake | flat |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 elevation | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 elevation | det |
| 17 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elevation | amod |
| 18 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extends | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 300 | case |
| 20 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 elevation | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 350 | case |
| 22 | 350 | 350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 300 | nmod |
| 23 | m. | m. | ADP | _ | 29 scrub | case |
| 24 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 vegetation | nmod:poss |
| 25 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 vegetation | amod |
| 26 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scrub | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 scrub | cop |
| 28 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scrub | compound |
| 29 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extends | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grass | cc |
| 31 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scrub | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | the northern lowland region | Lake | the edge of the Adamawa | with a average elevation of 300 to 350 | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lake=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | present | elevation's characteristic vegetation | m. savanna scrub and grass; grass conj | tree rules |
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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