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title: During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandato… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads were built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity. Who acts: French, policy, attempts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ce
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# Central African Republic, sentence 46

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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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During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads were built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity.

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**Who acts:** French, policy, attempts · **What happens:** introduce, build, make, combat, sleep, establish · **To what, where:** policy, network, attempts, sickness, Protestant missions, Christianity

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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 (French, policy, attempts), 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:46
# text = During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads were built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	xcomp	_	_
29	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past | the French | a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation |  |  | during the 1920s and 1930s |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | a network *not said here* |  |  |  | of roads | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive | a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation *not said here* | attempts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **combat** | to-infinitive | attempts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** | gerund | attempts *not said here* | sickness |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme |
| 6 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Protestant missions |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **spread** | to-infinitive |  | Christianity |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location christianity=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, «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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