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title: In particular, English-speaking people are discriminated against; pr… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: In particular, English-speaking people are discriminated against; protests often escalate into violent clashes and killings. Who acts: protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 131

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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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In particular, English-speaking people are discriminated against; protests often escalate into violent clashes and killings.

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**Who acts:** protests · **What happens:** speak, discriminate, escalate · **To what, where:** speaking people, violent clashes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (protests), 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:131
# text = In particular, English-speaking people are discriminated against; protests often escalate into violent clashes and killings.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	discriminated	discriminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	escalate	escalate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clashes	clash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	killings	killing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | English *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **discriminate** | present · passive |  | speaking people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **escalate** | present | protests |  |  | violent clashes and killings |  | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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