Senegal, sentence 58
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.
Despite peace talks, a southern separatist group (Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance or MFDC) in the Casamance region has clashed sporadically with government forces since 1982 in the Casamance conflict.
What happens: clash · To what, where: southern separatist group, Casamance conflict
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: 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 talks | case |
| 2 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talks | compound |
| 3 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 clashed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 talks | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 6 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 group | amod |
| 7 | separatist | separatist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 group | compound |
| 8 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clashed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Movement | punct |
| 10 | Movement | Movement | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 group | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Forces | case |
| 12 | Democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Forces | amod |
| 13 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Movement | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Casamance | case |
| 15 | Casamance | Casamance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Forces | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 MFDC | cc |
| 17 | MFDC | MFDC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Casamance | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Movement | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 region | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 region | det |
| 21 | Casamance | Casamance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 region | compound |
| 22 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 group | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 clashed | aux |
| 24 | clashed | clash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | sporadically | sporadically | ADV | _ | 24 clashed | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 forces | case |
| 27 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forces | compound |
| 28 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 clashed | obl |
| 29 | since | since | ADP | _ | 30 1982 | case |
| 30 | 1982 | 1982 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 clashed | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 conflict | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 conflict | det |
| 33 | Casamance | Casamance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 conflict | compound |
| 34 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clashed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 clashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clash | present · perfect · passive | a southern separatist group in the Casamance region | the Casamance conflict | since 1982 | despite peace talks; with government forces; sporadically property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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