Mauritania, sentence 55
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.
Gradually many individuals belonging to sedentary peoples, whose ancestors had been expelled centuries earlier, began to migrate into Mauritania.
Who acts: many individuals · What happens: belong, expel, begin, migrate · To what, where: ancestors, Mauritania
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 (many individuals), 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 | Gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 individuals | amod |
| 3 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 began | nsubj |
| 4 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 individuals | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 peoples | case |
| 6 | sedentary | sedentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peoples | amod |
| 7 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belonging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expelled | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 expelled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 expelled | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 expelled | aux:pass |
| 13 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 14 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 expelled | obj |
| 15 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 expelled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 individuals | punct |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 migrate | mark |
| 19 | migrate | migrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Mauritania | case |
| 21 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 migrate | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | many individuals not said here | to sedentary peoples | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expel | past · perfect · passive | ancestors | century | early property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | past | many individuals | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | migrate | to-infinitive | many individuals not said here | Mauritania | tree rules |
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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