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title: Mauritania is a semi-presidential republic, where the President of M… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritania is a semi-presidential republic, where the President of Mauritania is directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed for a five-year term (eligible for a second term). Who acts: Mauritania, absolute majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its depe
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# Mauritania, sentence 201

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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 is a semi-presidential republic, where the President of Mauritania is directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed for a five-year term (eligible for a second term).

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**Who acts:** Mauritania, absolute majority · **What happens:** be, elect, need · **To what, where:** semi-presidential republic, President, two rounds

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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, absolute majority), 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:201
# text = Mauritania is a semi-presidential republic, where the President of Mauritania is directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed for a five-year term (eligible for a second term).
1	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	semi-presidential	semi-presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	rounds	round	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	eligible	eligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mauritania | a semi-presidential republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | present · passive | absolute majority and popular vote | the President of Mauritania |  | two rounds |  | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | absolute majority and popular vote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a year term | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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