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title: Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor. Who acts: Gustav. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 47

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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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Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor.

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**Who acts:** Gustav · **What happens:** make, annex · **To what, where:** treaty, region

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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 (Gustav), 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:47
# text = Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Nachtigal	Nachtigal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	annex	annex	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Gustav | a treaty |  |  |  | with one of the local kings; late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treaty=Product |
| 2 | **annex** | to-infinitive | Gustav *not said here* | the region |  |  |  | for the German emperor | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent region=Theme for emperor=Beneficiary |

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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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