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title: Directly south of them are the Centre (Centre) and East (Est). — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly south of them are the Centre (Centre) and East (Est). Who acts: districts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 170

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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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Directly south of them are the Centre (Centre) and East (Est).

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**Who acts:** districts · **What happens:** be

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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 (districts), 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:170
# text = Directly south of them are the Centre (Centre) and East (Est).
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	south	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Est	Est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | districts *= district* |  |  |  |  | of the Centre and East; East *conj* | tree rules |

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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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