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title: Chad contains six terrestrial ecoregions: East Sudanian savanna, Sah… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: Chad contains six terrestrial ecoregions: East Sudanian savanna, Sahelian Acacia savanna, Lake Chad flooded savanna, East Saharan montane xeric woodlands, South Saharan steppe and woodlands, and Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands. Who acts: Chad, six terrestrial ecoregions, East, Tibesti 
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# Chad, sentence 94

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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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Chad contains six terrestrial ecoregions: East Sudanian savanna, Sahelian Acacia savanna, Lake Chad flooded savanna, East Saharan montane xeric woodlands, South Saharan steppe and woodlands, and Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands.

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**Who acts:** Chad, six terrestrial ecoregions, East, Tibesti Jebel · **What happens:** contain, flood, woodland · **To what, where:** savanna

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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 (Chad, six terrestrial ecoregions, East, Tibesti Jebel), 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:94
# text = Chad contains six terrestrial ecoregions: East Sudanian savanna, Sahelian Acacia savanna, Lake Chad flooded savanna, East Saharan montane xeric woodlands, South Saharan steppe and woodlands, and Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands.
1	Chad	chad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ecoregions	ecoregion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sudanian	Sudanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Sahelian	Sahelian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Acacia	Acacia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	Saharan	Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	montane	montane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	xeric	xeric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Saharan	Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	Tibesti	Tibesti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Jebel	Jebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	Uweinat	Uweinat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	montane	montane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	xeric	xeric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Chad |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **flood** | past | six terrestrial ecoregions | savanna and montane xeric woodlands and Saharan steppe and woodlands |  |  |  | Sudanian savanna  Lake and Acacia savanna *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent savanna=Patient |
| 3 | **woodland** |  | East |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **woodland** |  | Tibesti Jebel |  |  |  |  |  | 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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