Cameroon, sentence 258
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.
Douala is the country's principal seaport and Kribi Deepwater Port started operations in 2014.
Who acts: Douala, principal seaport · What happens: be, start · To what, where: principal seaport, operations, 2014
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 (Douala, principal seaport), 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 | Douala | Douala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seaport | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seaport | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seaport | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 country | case |
| 6 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seaport | amod |
| 7 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Kribi | cc |
| 9 | Kribi | Kribi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seaport | conj |
| 10 | Deepwater | Deepwater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kribi | flat |
| 11 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kribi | flat |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 started | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 2014 | case |
| 15 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 started | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Douala | the country's principal seaport and Kribi | the country nmod:poss; Kribi conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | past | the country's principal seaport and Kribi | operations | 2014 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cameroon», 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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