---
title: The Haratin, comprise 40% of the population while the Bidhan make up… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: The Haratin, comprise 40% of the population while the Bidhan make up 30% of the population. Who acts: Haratin, Bidhan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Mauritania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/) / 20

# Mauritania, sentence 20

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Haratin, comprise 40% of the population while the Bidhan make up 30% of the population.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Haratin, Bidhan · **What happens:** comprise, make up

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Haratin, Bidhan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:20
# text = The Haratin, comprise 40% of the population while the Bidhan make up 30% of the population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Haratin	Haratin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	comprise	comprise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Bidhan	Bidhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprise** | present | the Haratin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 2 | **make up** | infinitive | the Bidhan |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/21/)
- ↑ back to [Mauritania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mauritania/)