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title: The northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: The northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 300 to 350 m. Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass. Who acts: northern lowland region, characteristic vegetation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tr
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# Cameroon, sentence 191

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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 northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 300 to 350 m. Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass.

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**Who acts:** northern lowland region, characteristic vegetation · **What happens:** extend, be · **To what, where:** Lake, edge

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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 (northern lowland region, characteristic vegetation), 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:191
# text = The northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 300 to 350 m. Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lowland	lowland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	extends	extend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Adamawa	Adamawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	350	350	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	m.	m.	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	scrub	scrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | the northern lowland region |  | Lake | the edge of the Adamawa |  | with a average elevation of 300 to 350 | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lake=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | elevation's characteristic vegetation |  |  |  |  | m. savanna scrub and grass; grass *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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