Central African Republic, sentence 25

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.

Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and before 3000 BCE the domestication of African oil palm improved the groups' nutrition and allowed for expansion of the local populations.

Who acts: domestication, groups · What happens: progress, improve, allow, nutrify, expand · To what, where: white yam, millet, nutrition, local populations

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 (domestication, groups), 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	Initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 farming	amod
2	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yam	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 yam	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yam	amod
5	yam	yam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	progressed	progress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 yam	acl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 millet	case
8	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 progressed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sorghum	cc
10	sorghum	sorghum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 millet	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 improved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 improved	cc
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 3000	case
14	3000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 improved	obl
15	BCE	BCE	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 3000	nmod:unmarked
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 domestication	det
17	domestication	domestication	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 improved	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 palm	case
19	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 palm	amod
20	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palm	compound
21	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 domestication	nmod
22	improved	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 yam	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 groups	det
24	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 nutrition	nmod:poss
25	'	's	PART	_	24 groups	case
26	nutrition	nutrition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 improved	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 allowed	cc
28	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 improved	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 expansion	case
30	expansion	expansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 allowed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 populations	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 populations	det
33	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 populations	amod
34	populations	population	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 expansion	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 yam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	progress	participle		white yam not said here	millet and sorghum			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	improve	past	the domestication of African oil palm	the groups's nutrition		before 3000 BCE		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nutrition=Patient
3	allow	participle	the domestication of African oil palm not said here				for expansion of the local populations goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for expansion=Goal
4	nutrify		the groups					nom nutrition «process transitive»: poss=agent
5	expand			the local populations				nom expansion «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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Central African Republic», 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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Central African Republic, sentence 25