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title: A series of scarps face southwest, longitudinally bisecting these pl… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: A series of scarps face southwest, longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country. Who acts: series. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 174

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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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A series of scarps face southwest, longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country.

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**Who acts:** series · **What happens:** face, bisect · **To what, where:** plains, center

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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 (series), 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:174
# text = A series of scarps face southwest, longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	scarps	scarp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	southwest	southwest	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	longitudinally	longitudinally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	bisecting	bisect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present | a series of scarps |  |  |  |  | southwest *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bisect** | gerund | a series of scarps *not said here* | this plains |  | the center of the country |  | longitudinally *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plain=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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