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title: The government responded with a military offensive, and the insurgen… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: The government responded with a military offensive, and the insurgency spread across the Northwest and Southwest regions. as of 2019, fighting between separatist guerillas and government forces continues. Who acts: government, insurgency, fighting. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its depen
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# Cameroon, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«Cameroon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The government responded with a military offensive, and the insurgency spread across the Northwest and Southwest regions. as of 2019, fighting between separatist guerillas and government forces continues.

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**Who acts:** government, insurgency, fighting · **What happens:** respond, spread, fight, continue · **To what, where:** Northwest regions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cameroon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, insurgency, fighting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cameroon:102
# text = The government responded with a military offensive, and the insurgency spread across the Northwest and Southwest regions. as of 2019, fighting between separatist guerillas and government forces continues.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	offensive	offensive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	separatist	separatist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	guerillas	guerilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | the government |  |  |  |  | with a military offensive; as 2019 | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with offensive=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the insurgency |  |  | the Northwest regions |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across region=Destination |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | between separatist guerillas and government forces | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **continue** | present | fighting |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Cameroon», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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