Yaoundé, sentence 49
From Wikipedia, «Yaoundé», 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.
A distance outside Yaoundé is the NGO Ape Action Africa, which rescues and rehabilitates great apes threatened with extinction by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades.
Who acts: distance, Ape Action Africa · What happens: be, rescue, rehabilitate, threaten · To what, where: Ape Action Africa, great apes
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 (distance, Ape Action Africa), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 distance | det |
| 2 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | nsubj |
| 3 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 4 Yaoundé | case |
| 4 | Yaoundé | Yaoundé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 distance | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Africa | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Africa | det |
| 7 | NGO | NGO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ape | compound |
| 8 | Ape | Ape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | compound |
| 9 | Action | Action | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | compound |
| 10 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rescues | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rescues | nsubj |
| 13 | rescues | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Africa | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rehabilitates | cc |
| 15 | rehabilitates | rehabilitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rescues | conj |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 apes | amod |
| 17 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rehabilitates | obj |
| 18 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 apes | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 extinction | case |
| 20 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threatened | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 bushmeat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bushmeat | det |
| 23 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bushmeat | amod |
| 24 | bushmeat | bushmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threatened | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 trades | cc |
| 26 | deforestation | deforestation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trades | compound |
| 27 | trades | trade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bushmeat | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Africa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a distance outside Yaoundé | the Ape Action Africa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rescue | present | the Ape Action Africa | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rehabilitate | present | the Ape Action Africa not said here | great apes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | threaten | participle | great apes not said here | with extinction; by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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