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title: The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 14

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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 southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

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**What happens:** federate, form · **To what, where:** British Cameroons, 1961, Federal Republic

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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: 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:14
# text = The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Cameroons	cameroon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	federated	federate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **federate** | participle |  | British Cameroons *not said here* |  | 1961 |  | with part | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument |
| 2 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | the Federal Republic of Cameroon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=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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