Nouakchott, sentence 28
From Wikipedia, «Nouakchott», 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.
The population is now estimated to consist of at least one third of the country's population of 3.3 million, and the 2013 census showed a population of 958,399.
Who acts: 2013 census · What happens: estimate, consist, show · To what, where: population
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2013 census), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 population | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 estimated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 estimated | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 estimated | advmod |
| 5 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 consist | mark |
| 7 | consist | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 estimated | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 third | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 one | nmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 third | nummod |
| 12 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consist | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 population | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 population | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 country | case |
| 17 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 third | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 million | case |
| 19 | 3.3 | 3.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 million | compound |
| 20 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 population | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 showed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 showed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 census | det |
| 24 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 census | nummod |
| 25 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 showed | nsubj |
| 26 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 estimated | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 population | det |
| 28 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 showed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 958,399 | case |
| 30 | 958,399 | 958,399 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 population | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 estimated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | present · passive | the population | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consist | to-infinitive | of one third of the country's population of 3.3 million | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | past | the 2013 census | a population of 958,399 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent population=Recipient |
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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