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title: Mauritania has a poor human rights record, particularly because of i… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritania has a poor human rights record, particularly because of its perpetuation of slavery; the 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 90,000 slaves in the country (or 2.1% of the population). Who acts: Mauritania, Slavery Index, 90,000 slaves, record. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mau
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# Mauritania, sentence 14

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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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Mauritania has a poor human rights record, particularly because of its perpetuation of slavery; the 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 90,000 slaves in the country (or 2.1% of the population).

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**Who acts:** Mauritania, Slavery Index, 90,000 slaves, record · **What happens:** have, estimate, be about, perpetuate · **To what, where:** poor human rights record, slavery

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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 (Mauritania, Slavery Index, 90,000 slaves, record), 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:14
# text = Mauritania has a poor human rights record, particularly because of its perpetuation of slavery; the 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 90,000 slaves in the country (or 2.1% of the population).
1	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	perpetuation	perpetuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	Global	Global	PROPN	NNP	_	20	compound	_	_
20	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	estimates	estimate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	90,000	90,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	2.1	2.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mauritania | a poor human rights record |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Patient |
| 2 | **estimate** | present | the Slavery Index |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Value |
| 3 | **be about** | present | 90,000 slaves in the country |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **perpetuate** |  | record | slavery |  |  |  |  | nom perpetuation «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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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