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title: Douala is the country's principal seaport and Kribi Deepwater Port s… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Douala is the country's principal seaport and Kribi Deepwater Port started operations in 2014. Who acts: Douala, principal seaport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 258

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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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Douala is the country's principal seaport and Kribi Deepwater Port started operations in 2014.

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**Who acts:** Douala, principal seaport · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** principal seaport, operations, 2014

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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 (Douala, principal seaport), 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:258
# text = Douala is the country's principal seaport and Kribi Deepwater Port started operations in 2014.
1	Douala	Douala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Kribi	Kribi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Deepwater	Deepwater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Douala | the country's principal seaport and Kribi |  |  |  | the country *nmod:poss*; Kribi *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | the country's principal seaport and Kribi | operations |  | 2014 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |

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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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