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title: Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending force… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending forced labour altogether but angering the local natives, who felt swamped. Who acts: Nigerian migrant workers, local natives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 62

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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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Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending forced labour altogether but angering the local natives, who felt swamped.

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**Who acts:** Nigerian migrant workers, local natives · **What happens:** flock, end, force, anger, feel, swamp · **To what, where:** forced labour, local natives

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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 (Nigerian migrant workers, local natives), 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:62
# text = Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending forced labour altogether but angering the local natives, who felt swamped.
1	Nigerian	nigerian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	migrant	migrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Cameroons	cameroon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	angering	anger	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	swamped	swamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | past | Nigerian migrant workers |  |  |  |  | to Southern Cameroons | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | Nigerian migrant workers *not said here* | forced labour |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality labour=Eventuality |
| 3 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **anger** | gerund | Nigerian migrant workers *not said here* | the local natives |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus native=Experiencer |
| 5 | **feel** | past | the local natives |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **swamp** | participle | the local natives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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