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title: Mauritania's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritania's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in two biogeographic realms; the north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from the Sahara to roughly 19° north, and the south in the Afrotropic realms. Who acts: wildlife, country, north. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania»
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# Mauritania, sentence 187

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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's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in two biogeographic realms; the north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from the Sahara to roughly 19° north, and the south in the Afrotropic realms.

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**Who acts:** wildlife, country, north · **What happens:** have, lie, sit, extend · **To what, where:** two main influences, two biogeographic realms, south, Palearctic, 19, Sahara

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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 (wildlife, country, north), 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:187
# text = Mauritania's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in two biogeographic realms; the north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from the Sahara to roughly 19° north, and the south in the Afrotropic realms.
1	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	biogeographic	biogeographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Palearctic	Palearctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	extends	extend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	south	south	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	33	case	_	_
33	north	north	ADV	RB	_	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Afrotropic	Afrotropic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mauritania's wildlife | two main influences |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the country |  |  | two biogeographic realms |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in realm=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the north | the south in the Afrotropic realms |  | the Palearctic |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palearctic=Location |
| 4 | **extend** | present |  |  | 19 | the Sahara |  | which *nsubj*; south *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to 19=Recipient |

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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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