Mauritania, sentence 174
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.
A series of scarps face southwest, longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country.
Who acts: series · What happens: face, bisect · To what, where: plains, center
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 (series), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 series | det |
| 2 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 scarps | case |
| 4 | scarps | scarp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 series | nmod |
| 5 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | southwest | southwest | ADV | _ | 5 face | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bisecting | punct |
| 8 | longitudinally | longitudinally | ADV | _ | 9 bisecting | advmod |
| 9 | bisecting | bisect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 face | advcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 plains | det |
| 11 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bisecting | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 center | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 center | det |
| 14 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bisecting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 center | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | present | a series of scarps | southwest property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bisect | gerund | a series of scarps not said here | this plains | the center of the country | longitudinally property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plain=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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