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title: Many of Abdallahi's former supporters criticized this as a political… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of Abdallahi's former supporters criticized this as a political ploy and refused to recognize the results. Who acts: Many former supporters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 153

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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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Many of Abdallahi's former supporters criticized this as a political ploy and refused to recognize the results.

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**Who acts:** Many former supporters · **What happens:** criticize, refuse, not recognize · **To what, where:** this, results

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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 (Many former supporters), 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:153
# text = Many of Abdallahi's former supporters criticized this as a political ploy and refused to recognize the results.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Abdallahi	Abdallahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	criticized	criticize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ploy	ploy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticize** | past | Abdallahi's Many former supporters | this |  |  |  | as a political ploy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent this=Theme as ploy=Attribute |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Abdallahi's Many former supporters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **recognize** | to-infinitive | Abdallahi's Many former supporters *not said here* | the results |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus |

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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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