Chad, sentence 26
From Wikipedia, «Chad», 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.
In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory favoured human settlement, and its population increased considerably.
Who acts: ecological conditions, population · What happens: favour, increase · To what, where: human settlement, 7th millennium
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ecological conditions, population), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 millennium | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 millennium | det |
| 3 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 millennium | amod |
| 4 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 favoured | obl |
| 5 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 millennium | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 millennium | punct |
| 7 | ecological | ecological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 conditions | amod |
| 8 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 favoured | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 half | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 half | det |
| 11 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 half | amod |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 conditions | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 territory | case |
| 14 | Chadian | chadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 territory | amod |
| 15 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 half | nmod |
| 16 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 settlement | amod |
| 18 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 favoured | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 increased | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 increased | cc |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 population | nmod:poss |
| 22 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 increased | nsubj |
| 23 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 favoured | conj |
| 24 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 23 increased | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 favoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | past | ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory | human settlement | the 7th millennium | tree rules | |||
| 2 | increase | past | settlement's population | considerably property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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