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title: Major rivers—the Chari, Logone and their tributaries—flow through th… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: Major rivers—the Chari, Logone and their tributaries—flow through the southern savannas from the southeast into Lake Chad. Who acts: Major rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 96

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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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Major rivers—the Chari, Logone and their tributaries—flow through the southern savannas from the southeast into Lake Chad.

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**Who acts:** Major rivers · **What happens:** flow · **To what, where:** southern savannas

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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 (Major rivers), 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:96
# text = Major rivers—the Chari, Logone and their tributaries—flow through the southern savannas from the southeast into Lake Chad.
1	Major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Chari	Chari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Logone	Logone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tributaries	tributary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	flow	flow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	savannas	savanna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | infinitive | Major rivers |  |  | the southern savannas |  | from the southeast; into Lake Chad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through savanna=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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