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title: France outlawed the pro-independence political party, the Union of t… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: France outlawed the pro-independence political party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (Union des Populations du Cameroun, UPC), on 13 July 1955. Who acts: France. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cameroon, sentence 64

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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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France outlawed the pro-independence political party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (Union des Populations du Cameroun, UPC), on 13 July 1955.

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**Who acts:** France · **What happens:** outlaw · **To what, where:** pro-independence political party, 13

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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 (France), 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:64
# text = France outlawed the pro-independence political party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (Union des Populations du Cameroun, UPC), on 13 July 1955.
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	outlawed	outlaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	pro-independence	pro-independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Peoples	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
19	du	du	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Cameroun	Cameroun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	UPC	UPC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
27	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outlaw** | past | France | the pro-independence political party |  | 13  July  1955 |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |

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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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