Mauritania, sentence 92
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.
It became increasingly contested due to his harsh and uncompromising measures against opponents; many dissidents were jailed, and some executed.
Who acts: regime · What happens: become, contest, uncompromis, jail, execute · To what, where: measures, many dissidents, some
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 (regime), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 4 contested | advmod |
| 4 | contested | contest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 contested | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 due | fixed |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 harsh | nmod:poss |
| 8 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 due | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 uncompromising | cc |
| 10 | uncompromising | uncompromis | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 harsh | conj |
| 11 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uncompromising | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 opponents | case |
| 13 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uncompromising | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 jailed | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dissidents | amod |
| 16 | dissidents | dissident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 jailed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 jailed | aux:pass |
| 18 | jailed | jail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 became | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 executed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 executed | cc |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 jailed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | regime | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contest | participle | regime not said here | due, increasingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | uncompromis | gerund | regime not said here | measures | against opponents | tree rules | |||
| 4 | jail | past · passive | many dissidents | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | execute | participle · passive | some | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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