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title: Female genital mutilation (FGM), while not widespread, is practised… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Female genital mutilation (FGM), while not widespread, is practised among some populations; according to a 2013 UNICEF report, 1% of women in Cameroon have undergone FGM. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 350

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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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Female genital mutilation (FGM), while not widespread, is practised among some populations; according to a 2013 UNICEF report, 1% of women in Cameroon have undergone FGM.

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**What happens:** practise, accord, undergo · **To what, where:** Female genital mutilation, FGM

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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: 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:350
# text = Female genital mutilation (FGM), while not widespread, is practised among some populations; according to a 2013 UNICEF report, 1% of women in Cameroon have undergone FGM.
1	Female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	genital	genital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mutilation	mutilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	FGM	FGM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
18	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	UNICEF	unicef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	FGM	FGM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present · passive |  | Female genital mutilation |  |  |  | among some populations; accord a 2013 UNICEF report | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **undergo** | present · perfect |  | FGM |  |  |  | of women in Cameroon | 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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