Mauritania, sentence 63
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.
French pressure on those tribes altered the existing balance of power, and new conflicts arose between the southern populations and the Moors.
Who acts: French pressure, new conflicts, power · What happens: alter, exist, arise, balance · To what, where: existing balance, southern populations
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 pressure, new conflicts, power), 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 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pressure | amod |
| 2 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 altered | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tribes | case |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 tribes | det |
| 5 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 altered | nsubj |
| 6 | altered | alter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 balance | det |
| 8 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 balance | amod |
| 9 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 altered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 balance | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arose | cc |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conflicts | amod |
| 15 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arose | nsubj |
| 16 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 altered | conj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 populations | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 populations | det |
| 19 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 populations | amod |
| 20 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arose | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Moors | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moors | det |
| 23 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 populations | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 altered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alter | past | French pressure | the existing balance of power | that tribes nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent balance=Patient | |||
| 2 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | arise | past | new conflicts | the southern populations and the Moors | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between population=Location | ||||
| 4 | balance | power | nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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