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title: On 1 October 1961, the British Southern Cameroons gained independenc… — Cameroon · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 October 1961, the British Southern Cameroons gained independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and merged into the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Who acts: Southern Cameroons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cameroon» with its dependency t
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# Cameroon, sentence 70

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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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On 1 October 1961, the British Southern Cameroons gained independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and merged into the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

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**Who acts:** Southern Cameroons · **What happens:** gain, merge, form, vote · **To what, where:** independence, United Kingdom, Federal Republic, UN General Assembly

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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 (Southern Cameroons), 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:70
# text = On 1 October 1961, the British Southern Cameroons gained independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and merged into the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Cameroons	cameroon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	15	flat	_	_
15	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
22	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	merged	merge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **gain** | past | the Southern Cameroons | independence |  | the United Kingdom | october | by vote of the UN General Assembly | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme from kingdom=Source |
| 2 | **merge** | past | the Southern Cameroons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the Republic of Cameroon | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into republic=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | the Southern Cameroons *not said here* | the Federal Republic of Cameroon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme |
| 4 | **vote** |  |  | the UN General Assembly |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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