Cameroon, sentence 47
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.
Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor.
Who acts: Gustav · What happens: make, annex · To what, where: treaty, region
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 (Gustav), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | Gustav | Gustav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | Nachtigal | Nachtigal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gustav | flat |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 treaty | det |
| 7 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kings | det |
| 12 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kings | amod |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 annex | mark |
| 15 | annex | annex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 annex | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 emperor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 emperor | det |
| 20 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 emperor | amod |
| 21 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 annex | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Gustav | a treaty | with one of the local kings; late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treaty=Product | |||
| 2 | annex | to-infinitive | Gustav not said here | the region | for the German emperor | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent region=Theme for emperor=Beneficiary |
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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