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title: It covers an area of 1284000 km2, lying between latitudes 7° and 24°… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: It covers an area of 1284000 km2, lying between latitudes 7° and 24°N, and 13° and 24°E, and is the twentieth-largest country in the world. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 87

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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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It covers an area of 1284000 km2, lying between latitudes 7° and 24°N, and 13° and 24°E, and is the twentieth-largest country in the world.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** cover, lie, be · **To what, where:** area, 7, latitudes, largest country, world

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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 (country), 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:87
# text = It covers an area of 1284000 km2, lying between latitudes 7° and 24°N, and 13° and 24°E, and is the twentieth-largest country in the world.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1284000	1284000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	latitudes	latitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	12	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | country | a area of 1284000 |  |  |  | 13 ° E *parataxis* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | country *not said here* | 7 ° N |  | latitudes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between latitude=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the largest country |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |

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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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