Senegal, sentence 243
From Wikipedia, «Senegal», 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 Serer people stood out as one of this group, who spent over one thousand years resisting Islamization (see Serer history).
Who acts: Serer people, group · What happens: stand out, spend, resist, see · To what, where: Islamization, Serer history
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Senegal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serer people, group), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Serer | Serer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 group | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 group | det |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spent | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 spent | nsubj |
| 13 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 group | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 thousand | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 thousand | compound |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spent | obj |
| 18 | resisting | resist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spent | advcl |
| 19 | Islamization | islamization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resisting | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 resisting | advcl |
| 22 | Serer | Serer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 history | compound |
| 23 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | the Serer people | as one of this group | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | this group | year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | resist | gerund | this group not said here | Islamization | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | this group not said here | Serer history | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |
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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