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title: Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and before 3000 BCE the domestication of African oil palm improved the groups' nutrition and allowed for expansion of the local populations. Who acts: domestication, groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its
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# Central African Republic, sentence 25

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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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Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and before 3000 BCE the domestication of African oil palm improved the groups' nutrition and allowed for expansion of the local populations.

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**Who acts:** domestication, groups · **What happens:** progress, improve, allow, nutrify, expand · **To what, where:** white yam, millet, nutrition, local populations

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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 (domestication, groups), 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:25
# text = Initial farming of white yam progressed into millet and sorghum, and before 3000 BCE the domestication of African oil palm improved the groups' nutrition and allowed for expansion of the local populations.
1	Initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	progressed	progress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sorghum	sorghum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	3000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
15	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	domestication	domestication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	improved	improve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	nutrition	nutrition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **progress** | participle |  | white yam *not said here* |  | millet and sorghum |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **improve** | past | the domestication of African oil palm | the groups's nutrition |  |  | before 3000  BCE |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nutrition=Patient |
| 3 | **allow** | participle | the domestication of African oil palm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for expansion of the local populations *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for expansion=Goal |
| 4 | **nutrify** |  | the groups |  |  |  |  |  | nom nutrition «process transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **expand** |  |  | the local populations |  |  |  |  | nom expansion «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, «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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