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title: Beginning in 1903 and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning in 1903 and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying Trarza, Brakna, and Tagant. Who acts: French armies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 49

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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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Beginning in 1903 and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying Trarza, Brakna, and Tagant.

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**Who acts:** French armies · **What happens:** begin, succeed, occupy · **To what, where:** 1903, Trarza

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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 (French armies), 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:49
# text = Beginning in 1903 and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying Trarza, Brakna, and Tagant.
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	1904	1904	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	Trarza	Trarza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Brakna	Brakna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Tagant	Tagant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | the French armies *not said here* |  |  | 1903 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | the French armies |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **occupy** | gerund | the French armies *not said here* | Trarza and Tagant |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trarza=Experiencer |

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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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