Mauritania, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Mauritania», 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 rioting, adding to the already existing tensions, led to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians; black Mauritanians are often seen as "Senegalese" by the Bidān (White Moors), regardless of their nationality.
Who acts: rioting, terror · What happens: add, exist, lead, see, campaign · To what, where: existing tensions, black Mauritanians, rioting
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rioting, terror), 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 | 2 rioting | det |
| 2 | rioting | rioting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 adding | punct |
| 4 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 rioting | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tensions | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tensions | det |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 existing | advmod |
| 8 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tensions | amod |
| 9 | tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 adding | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tensions | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 campaign | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 campaign | det |
| 14 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 terror | case |
| 16 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 campaign | nmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 Mauritanians | case |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Mauritanians | amod |
| 19 | Mauritanians | Mauritanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 terror | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Mauritanians | amod |
| 22 | Mauritanians | Mauritanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 seen | advmod |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rioting | acl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Senegalese | case |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Senegalese | punct |
| 28 | Senegalese | senegalese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Senegalese | punct |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Bidān | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Bidān | det |
| 32 | Bidān | Bidān | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Senegalese | nmod |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Moors | punct |
| 34 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Moors | amod |
| 35 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Bidān | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Moors | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 regardless | punct |
| 38 | regardless | regardless | ADV | _ | 25 seen | advmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 nationality | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 nationality | nmod:poss |
| 41 | nationality | nationality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 regardless | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rioting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | gerund | the rioting not said here | to the existing tensions | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tension=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lead | participle | the existing tensions not said here | to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to campaign=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | present · passive | the rioting not said here | black Mauritanians | as Senegalese by the Bidān; often, regardless property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as senegalese=Attribute | |||
| 6 | campaign | terror against black Mauritanians | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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, «Mauritania», 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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