Mauritania, sentence 187
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's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in two biogeographic realms; the north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from the Sahara to roughly 19° north, and the south in the Afrotropic realms.
Who acts: wildlife, country, north · What happens: have, lie, sit, extend · To what, where: two main influences, two biogeographic realms, south, Palearctic, 19, Sahara
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 (wildlife, country, north), 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 | 3 wildlife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mauritania | case |
| 3 | wildlife | wildlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 influences | nummod |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 influences | amod |
| 7 | influences | influence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 lies | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 realms | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 realms | nummod |
| 14 | biogeographic | biogeographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 realms | amod |
| 15 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lies | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sits | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sits | nsubj |
| 19 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Palearctic | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Palearctic | det |
| 22 | Palearctic | Palearctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sits | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 extends | nsubj |
| 24 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sits | conj |
| 25 | south | south | ADV | _ | 24 extends | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Sahara | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sahara | det |
| 28 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 extends | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 19 | case |
| 30 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 31 19 | advmod |
| 31 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 extends | obl |
| 32 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 33 north | case |
| 33 | north | north | ADV | _ | 31 19 | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 south | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 south | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 south | det |
| 37 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sits | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 realms | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 realms | det |
| 40 | Afrotropic | Afrotropic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 realms | compound |
| 41 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 south | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mauritania's wildlife | two main influences | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the country | two biogeographic realms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in realm=Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | the north | the south in the Afrotropic realms | the Palearctic | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palearctic=Location | |||
| 4 | extend | present | 19 | the Sahara | which nsubj; south property | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to 19=Recipient |
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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