Yaoundé, sentence 12
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During the late 1770s and early 1800s, the Fulani—a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel—conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.
Who acts: pastoral, Islamic people · What happens: people, conquer, be, subjugate, displace · To what, where: most, northern Cameroon, largely non-Muslim inhabitants
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yaoundé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastoral, Islamic people), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 1770s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1770s | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 1770s | amod |
| 4 | 1770s | 1770 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 conquered | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 1800s | cc |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 1800s | amod |
| 7 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 1770s | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fulani | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fulani | det |
| 10 | Fulani | Fulani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1770s | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 people | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pastoral | det |
| 13 | pastoral | pastoral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nsubj |
| 14 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 conquered | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sahel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sahel | det |
| 18 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Sahel | amod |
| 19 | Sahel | Sahel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 people | punct |
| 21 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 conquered | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 most | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Cameroon | cop |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 Cameroon | advmod |
| 27 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Cameroon | amod |
| 28 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 subjugating | punct |
| 30 | subjugating | subjugate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 conquered | advcl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 displacing | cc |
| 32 | displacing | displace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 subjugating | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | largely | largely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 inhabitants | amod |
| 35 | non-Muslim | non-muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 inhabitants | amod |
| 36 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 displacing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | a pastoral | of the western Sahel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conquer | past | Islamic people | most | during the late 1770s and early 1800s and the Fulani | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | northern Cameroon | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | subjugate | gerund | Islamic people not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | displace | gerund | Islamic people not said here | pastoral's largely non-Muslim inhabitants | 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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