Dakar, sentence 29

From Wikipedia, «Dakar», 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.

They built a series of defensive walls out of laterite blocks, the longest of which stretched across the entire peninsula from Yoff to Hann, and successfully repulsed the Damel's army.

Who acts: armies · What happens: build, stretch, repulse · To what, where: series, laterite blocks, Hann, entire peninsula, army

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 series	det
4	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	defensive	defensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walls	amod
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 series	nmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 blocks	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 blocks	case
10	laterite	laterite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blocks	compound
11	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 longest	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 longest	det
14	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 blocks	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stretched	obl
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 longest	parataxis
18	across	across	ADP	_	21 peninsula	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 peninsula	det
20	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 peninsula	amod
21	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 Yoff	case
23	Yoff	Yoff	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 peninsula	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Hann	case
25	Hann	Hann	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 repulsed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 repulsed	cc
28	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	29 repulsed	advmod
29	repulsed	repulse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 built	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Damel	det
31	Damel	Damel	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 army	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Damel	case
33	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 repulsed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	armies = army	a series of defensive walls		laterite blocks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset series=Product
2	stretch	participle			Hann	the entire peninsula from Yoff	which obl	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Location
3	repulse	participle	armies = army not said here	the Damel's army			successfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer

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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Dakar, sentence 29