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title: French pressure on those tribes altered the existing balance of powe… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: French pressure on those tribes altered the existing balance of power, and new conflicts arose between the southern populations and the Moors. Who acts: French pressure, new conflicts, power. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 63

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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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French pressure on those tribes altered the existing balance of power, and new conflicts arose between the southern populations and the Moors.

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**Who acts:** French pressure, new conflicts, power · **What happens:** alter, exist, arise, balance · **To what, where:** existing balance, southern populations

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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 pressure, new conflicts, power), 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:63
# text = French pressure on those tribes altered the existing balance of power, and new conflicts arose between the southern populations and the Moors.
1	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	altered	alter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** | past | French pressure | the existing balance of power |  |  |  | that tribes *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent balance=Patient |
| 2 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arise** | past | new conflicts |  |  | the southern populations and the Moors |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between population=Location |
| 4 | **balance** |  | power |  |  |  |  |  | nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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