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title: In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory favoured human settlement, and its population increased considerably. Who acts: ecological conditions, population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 26

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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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In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory favoured human settlement, and its population increased considerably.

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**Who acts:** ecological conditions, population · **What happens:** favour, increase · **To what, where:** human settlement, 7th millennium

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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 (ecological conditions, population), 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:26
# text = In the 7th millennium BC, ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory favoured human settlement, and its population increased considerably.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Chadian	chadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favour** | past | ecological conditions in the northern half of Chadian territory | human settlement |  | the 7th millennium |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **increase** | past | settlement's population |  |  |  |  | considerably *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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, «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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