--- title: The rioting, adding to the already existing tensions, led to a campa… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics description: The rioting, adding to the already existing tensions, led to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians; black Mauritanians are often seen as "Senegalese" by the Bidān (White Moors), regardless of their nationality. Who acts: rioting, terror. 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The rioting, adding to the already existing tensions, led to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians; black Mauritanians are often seen as "Senegalese" by the Bidān (White Moors), regardless of their nationality. **Who acts:** rioting, terror · **What happens:** add, exist, lead, see, campaign · **To what, where:** existing tensions, black Mauritanians, rioting This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rioting, terror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Mauritania:104 # text = The rioting, adding to the already existing tensions, led to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians; black Mauritanians are often seen as "Senegalese" by the Bidān (White Moors), regardless of their nationality. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rioting rioting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 already already ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 existing exist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 tensions tension NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Mauritanians Mauritanian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Mauritanians Mauritanian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Senegalese senegalese NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Bidān Bidān PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Moors moor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 regardless regardless ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 nationality nationality NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | the rioting *not said here* | | | | | to the existing tensions | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tension=Co-Patient | | 2 | **exist** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lead** | participle | | the existing tensions *not said here* | | | | to a campaign of terror against black Mauritanians | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to campaign=Patient | | 4 | **see** | present · passive | the rioting *not said here* | black Mauritanians | | | | as Senegalese by the Bidān; often, regardless *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as senegalese=Attribute | | 6 | **campaign** | | terror against black Mauritanians | | | | | | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mauritania», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/105/) - ↑ back to [Mauritania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/)