Cameroon, sentence 70
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.
On 1 October 1961, the British Southern Cameroons gained independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and merged into the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Who acts: Southern Cameroons · What happens: gain, merge, form, vote · To what, where: independence, United Kingdom, Federal Republic, UN General Assembly
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 (Southern Cameroons), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 October | case |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | nummod |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gained | obl |
| 4 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 October | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cameroons | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Southern | amod |
| 8 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 9 Cameroons | compound |
| 9 | Cameroons | cameroon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gained | nsubj |
| 10 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gained | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Kingdom | det |
| 14 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 15 Kingdom | flat |
| 15 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gained | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 vote | case |
| 17 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gained | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Assembly | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Assembly | det |
| 20 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Assembly | compound |
| 21 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Assembly | flat |
| 22 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 vote | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 merged | cc |
| 24 | merged | merge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gained | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 Republic | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Republic | det |
| 27 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 merged | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Cameroon | case |
| 29 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Republic | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 form | mark |
| 31 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 merged | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Republic | det |
| 33 | Federal | Federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Republic | amod |
| 34 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 form | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Cameroon | case |
| 36 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Republic | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the Southern Cameroons | independence | the United Kingdom | october | by vote of the UN General Assembly | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme from kingdom=Source | |
| 2 | merge | past | the Southern Cameroons not said here | into the Republic of Cameroon | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into republic=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | the Southern Cameroons not said here | the Federal Republic of Cameroon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vote | the UN General Assembly | nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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