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title: Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and f… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers. Who acts: Most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 23

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From Wikipedia, [«Chad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad), 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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Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** poverty

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most), 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:Chad:23
# text = Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	herders	herder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Most of country's inhabitants |  |  | poverty as subsistence herders and farmers |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=Location |

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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, «Chad», 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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