Mauritania, sentence 49
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.
Beginning in 1903 and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying Trarza, Brakna, and Tagant.
Who acts: French armies · What happens: begin, succeed, occupy · To what, where: 1903, Trarza
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 (French armies), 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 | Beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 succeeded | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1903 | case |
| 3 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Beginning | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 1904 | cc |
| 5 | 1904 | 1904 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 1903 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beginning | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 armies | det |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armies | amod |
| 9 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 succeeded | nsubj |
| 10 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 occupying | mark |
| 12 | occupying | occupy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 succeeded | advcl |
| 13 | Trarza | Trarza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occupying | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brakna | punct |
| 15 | Brakna | Brakna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Trarza | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tagant | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Tagant | cc |
| 18 | Tagant | Tagant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Trarza | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | the French armies not said here | 1903 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past | the French armies | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | occupy | gerund | the French armies not said here | Trarza and Tagant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trarza=Experiencer |
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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