N'Djamena, sentence 6
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Its strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria has historically made it an important crossroads for trade and cultural exchange in the region.
Who acts: city · What happens: make, crossroad · To what, where: strategic location
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 (city), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 location | nmod:poss |
| 2 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 location | amod |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 borders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 borders | det |
| 6 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 location | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Cameroon | case |
| 8 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 borders | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Nigeria | cc |
| 10 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cameroon | conj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 12 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crossroads | nsubj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crossroads | det |
| 16 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crossroads | amod |
| 17 | crossroads | crossroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crossroads | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 exchange | cc |
| 21 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 exchange | amod |
| 22 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crossroads | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 region | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 region | det |
| 25 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exchange | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | city's strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria | historically property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | crossroad | city | for trade; cultural exchange in the region conj | 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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