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title: In 2017, there were language protests by the Anglophone population a… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2017, there were language protests by the Anglophone population against perceived oppression by Francophone speakers. Who acts: language protests, Francophone speakers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 303

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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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In 2017, there were language protests by the Anglophone population against perceived oppression by Francophone speakers.

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**Who acts:** language protests, Francophone speakers · **What happens:** be, perceive, oppress · **To what, where:** 2017

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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 (language protests, Francophone speakers), 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:303
# text = In 2017, there were language protests by the Anglophone population against perceived oppression by Francophone speakers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Anglophone	anglophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Francophone	francophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | language protests |  |  | 2017; there |  | by the Anglophone population against perceived oppression by Francophone speakers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2017=Location |
| 2 | **perceive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **oppress** |  | Francophone speakers |  |  |  |  |  | nom oppression «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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