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title: The country has since experienced recurrent coups and periods of mil… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: The country has since experienced recurrent coups and periods of military dictatorship. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Mauritania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania), 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 country has since experienced recurrent coups and periods of military dictatorship.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** experienced recurrent coups

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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 (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:Mauritania:11
# text = The country has since experienced recurrent coups and periods of military dictatorship.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	since	since	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	recurrent	recurrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coups	coup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dictatorship	dictatorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the country | experienced recurrent coups and periods of military dictatorship |  |  |  | since *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coup=Patient |

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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, «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.

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