Nouakchott, sentence 72
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.
In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin a process of clearing the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott, as 24,000 families would eventually be relocated to planned housing in the city.
Who acts: government, process · What happens: announce, begin, clear, relocate, plan · To what, where: 2009, process, slum, outskirts, 24,000 families · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (government, process), 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 2009 | case |
| 2 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 announced | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2009 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mauritania | case |
| 7 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 government | nmod |
| 8 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 begin | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begin | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 begin | aux |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 announced | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 process | det |
| 14 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begin | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 clearing | mark |
| 16 | clearing | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 process | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 slum | det |
| 18 | slum | slum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clearing | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 outskirts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 outskirts | det |
| 21 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clearing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Nouakchott | case |
| 23 | Nouakchott | Nouakchott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 outskirts | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 relocated | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 relocated | mark |
| 26 | 24,000 | 24000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 families | nummod |
| 27 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 relocated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 relocated | aux |
| 29 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 31 relocated | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 relocated | aux:pass |
| 31 | relocated | relocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 begin | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 housing | case |
| 33 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 housing | amod |
| 34 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 relocated | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 city | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 city | det |
| 37 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 housing | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the government of Mauritania | 2009 | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | would | government | a process | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent process=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | clear | gerund | a process not said here | the slum | the outskirts of Nouakchott | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slum=Source | |||
| 4 | relocate | would · passive | 24,000 families | to planned housing in the city; eventually property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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