Central African Republic, sentence 160
From Wikipedia, «Central African Republic», 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 regions have a more equatorial climate, but they are subject to desertification, while the extreme northeast regions are steppe.
Who acts: southern regions, rainstorms, extreme northeast regions · What happens: have, be · To what, where: more equatorial climate, steppe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Central African Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (southern regions, rainstorms, extreme northeast regions), 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 regions | det |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 regions | amod |
| 3 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 climate | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 climate | amod |
| 7 | equatorial | equatorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 climate | amod |
| 8 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 subject | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 subject | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 subject | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 subject | cop |
| 13 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 desertification | case |
| 15 | desertification | desertification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 subject | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 steppe | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 steppe | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 regions | det |
| 19 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 regions | amod |
| 20 | northeast | northeast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 regions | amod |
| 21 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 steppe | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 steppe | cop |
| 23 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the southern regions | a more equatorial climate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | rainstorms = rainstorm | to desertification; subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the extreme northeast regions | steppe | 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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