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# Mauritania, sentence 28

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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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This term, employed by the French, gradually replaced other designations previously used for referring to the country.

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**What happens:** employ, replace, use, refer · **To what, where:** term, other designations

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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: 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:28
# text = This term, employed by the French, gradually replaced other designations previously used for referring to the country.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	designations	designation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	referring	refer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | participle |  | this term *not said here* |  |  |  | by the French | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **replace** | participle |  | other designations |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme designation=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | other designations *not said here* |  |  |  | previously *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **refer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the country | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to country=Co-Theme |

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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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