Mauritania, sentence 189
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.
Most of the north to about 19° north is regarded as being in the Palearctic, and is largely made up of the Sahara Desert and adjacent littoral habitats.
What happens: regard, be, make up · To what, where: Most
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: 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 regarded | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 north | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 north | det |
| 4 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 19 | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 19 | advmod |
| 7 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 north | nmod |
| 8 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 9 north | case |
| 9 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 19 | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 regarded | aux:pass |
| 11 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Palearctic | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Palearctic | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Palearctic | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Palearctic | det |
| 16 | Palearctic | Palearctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 regarded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 regarded | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Desert | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Desert | det |
| 25 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Desert | compound |
| 26 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 habitats | cc |
| 28 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 habitats | amod |
| 29 | littoral | littoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 habitats | amod |
| 30 | habitats | habitat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Desert | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present · passive | Most of the north to 19 ° north | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | as the Palearctic | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make up | present · passive | of the Sahara Desert and adjacent littoral habitats; largely property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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