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title: Snacks are popular, especially in larger towns where they may be bou… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Snacks are popular, especially in larger towns where they may be bought from street vendors. Who acts: Snacks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 380

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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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Snacks are popular, especially in larger towns where they may be bought from street vendors.

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**Who acts:** Snacks · **What happens:** be, buy · **To what, where:** Snacks, street vendors

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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 (Snacks), 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:380
# text = Snacks are popular, especially in larger towns where they may be bought from street vendors.
1	Snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	vendors	vendor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Snacks |  |  |  |  | larger towns *conj*; popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | may · passive |  | Snacks *= snack* |  | street vendors |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from vendor=Source |

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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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