N'Djamena, sentence 100
From Wikipedia, «N'Djamena», 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.
In 2011, Chad signed a contract with a Chinese civil engineering group to build a railway to eventually connect N'Djamena to Sudan and Cameroon, as well as other Chadian cities.
Who acts: Chad · What happens: sign, build, connect · To what, where: contract, 2011, railway, N'Djamena, Sudan
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «N'Djamena». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chad), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2011 | case |
| 2 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 signed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2011 | punct |
| 4 | Chad | Chad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 signed | nsubj |
| 5 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 contract | det |
| 7 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 group | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 group | amod |
| 11 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 group | amod |
| 12 | engineering | engineering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 group | compound |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 build | mark |
| 15 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 signed | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 railway | det |
| 17 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 build | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 connect | mark |
| 19 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 20 connect | advmod |
| 20 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 railway | acl |
| 21 | N'Djamena | N'Djamena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 connect | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Sudan | case |
| 23 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 connect | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Cameroon | cc |
| 25 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sudan | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cities | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 32 cities | cc |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 as | fixed |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 as | fixed |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cities | amod |
| 31 | Chadian | chadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cities | amod |
| 32 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 build | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Chad | a contract | 2011 | with a Chinese civil engineering group | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent contract=Theme in 2011=Destination | ||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | Chad not said here | a railway | other Chadian cities obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset railway=Product | |||
| 3 | connect | to-infinitive | Chad not said here | N'Djamena | Sudan and Cameroon | eventually property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent n'djamena=Patient to sudan=Co-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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