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title: In 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollut… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollution affected country. Who acts: African Republic, least light pollution, world. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Central African Republic, sentence 154

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From Wikipedia, [«Central African Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic), 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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In 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollution affected country.

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**Who acts:** African Republic, least light pollution, world · **What happens:** be, affect, pollute · **To what, where:** 2008, country

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Central African Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (African Republic, least light pollution, world), 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:Central_African_Republic:154
# text = In 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollution affected country.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
14	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | African Republic |  |  | 2008 |  | the world's least light pollution *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2008=Location |
| 2 | **affect** | participle | the world's least light pollution *not said here* | country |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus country=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pollute** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom pollution «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Central African Republic», 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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