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title: The Comorian legal system rests on Islamic law, an inherited French… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: The Comorian legal system rests on Islamic law, an inherited French (Napoleonic Code) legal code, and customary law (mila na ntsi). Who acts: Comorian legal system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 166

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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The Comorian legal system rests on Islamic law, an inherited French (Napoleonic Code) legal code, and customary law (mila na ntsi).

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**Who acts:** Comorian legal system · **What happens:** rest, inherit · **To what, where:** Islamic law

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comorian legal system), 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:Comoros:166
# text = The Comorian legal system rests on Islamic law, an inherited French (Napoleonic Code) legal code, and customary law (mila na ntsi).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Comorian	comorian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Napoleonic	Napoleonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Code	Code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mila	mila	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	na	na	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
26	ntsi	ntsi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present | the Comorian legal system |  |  | Islamic law and a inherited French and legal code |  | customary law *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on law=Location |
| 2 | **inherit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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