Mauritania, sentence 14
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.
Mauritania has a poor human rights record, particularly because of its perpetuation of slavery; the 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 90,000 slaves in the country (or 2.1% of the population).
Who acts: Mauritania, Slavery Index, 90,000 slaves, record · What happens: have, estimate, be about, perpetuate · To what, where: poor human rights record, slavery
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 (Mauritania, Slavery Index, 90,000 slaves, record), 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 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 record | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 record | amod |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 record | amod |
| 6 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 record | compound |
| 7 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 perpetuation | punct |
| 9 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 13 perpetuation | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 perpetuation | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 perpetuation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | perpetuation | perpetuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 record | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 slavery | case |
| 15 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perpetuation | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 estimates | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Index | det |
| 18 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Slavery | nummod |
| 19 | Global | Global | PROPN | _ | 20 Slavery | compound |
| 20 | Slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Index | compound |
| 21 | Index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 estimates | nsubj |
| 22 | estimates | estimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 are | expl |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 estimates | ccomp |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 90,000 | advmod |
| 26 | 90,000 | 90,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 slaves | nummod |
| 27 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 are | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 country | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 country | det |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 slaves | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 % | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 % | cc |
| 33 | 2.1 | 2.1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 % | nummod |
| 34 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 27 slaves | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 population | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 population | det |
| 37 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 % | nmod |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 % | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mauritania | a poor human rights record | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Patient | ||||
| 2 | estimate | present | the Slavery Index | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Value | |||||
| 3 | be about | present | 90,000 slaves in the country | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | perpetuate | record | slavery | nom perpetuation «act transitive»: poss=agent 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.
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