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title: The coverage of reserves was initially about 4 percent of the countr… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: The coverage of reserves was initially about 4 percent of the country's area, rising to 12 percent; the administration proposes to cover 30 percent of the land area. Who acts: coverage, 4 percent, administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 206

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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 coverage of reserves was initially about 4 percent of the country's area, rising to 12 percent; the administration proposes to cover 30 percent of the land area.

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**Who acts:** coverage, 4 percent, administration · **What happens:** be, rise, propose, cover · **To what, where:** 4 percent, 12 percent, 30 percent, reserves

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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 (coverage, 4 percent, administration), 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:206
# text = The coverage of reserves was initially about 4 percent of the country's area, rising to 12 percent; the administration proposes to cover 30 percent of the land area.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coverage	coverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	proposes	propose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the coverage of reserves | 4 percent |  |  |  | of the country's area; initially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | 4 percent *not said here* |  |  | 12 percent |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to percent=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **propose** | present | the administration |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive | the administration *not said here* | 30 percent of the land area |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Destination |
| 5 | **cover** |  |  | reserves |  |  |  |  | nom coverage «possession transitive»: of=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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