Mauritania, sentence 201
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 is a semi-presidential republic, where the President of Mauritania is directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed for a five-year term (eligible for a second term).
Who acts: Mauritania, absolute majority · What happens: be, elect, need · To what, where: semi-presidential republic, President, two rounds
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, absolute majority), 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 | 5 republic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 republic | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 republic | det |
| 4 | semi-presidential | semi-presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 republic | amod |
| 5 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 elected | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 elected | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 President | det |
| 9 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mauritania | case |
| 11 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 President | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 elected | aux:pass |
| 13 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 14 elected | advmod |
| 14 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 republic | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 majority | case |
| 16 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 majority | amod |
| 17 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elected | obl |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 vote | amod |
| 19 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 majority | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rounds | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 rounds | nummod |
| 22 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 elected | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 needed | mark |
| 24 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 elected | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 term | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 term | det |
| 27 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 year | nummod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 five | punct |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 term | compound |
| 30 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 needed | obl |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 eligible | punct |
| 32 | eligible | eligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 term | amod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 term | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 term | det |
| 35 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 term | amod |
| 36 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eligible | obl |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 eligible | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 republic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mauritania | a semi-presidential republic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | absolute majority and popular vote | the President of Mauritania | two rounds | directly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 3 | need a condition, not said to happen | participle | absolute majority and popular vote not said here | for a year term | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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