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title: Ethnic tensions and the sensitive issue of slavery – past and, in so… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethnic tensions and the sensitive issue of slavery – past and, in some areas, present – are still powerful themes in the country's political debate. Who acts: Ethnic tensions, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 70

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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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Ethnic tensions and the sensitive issue of slavery – past and, in some areas, present – are still powerful themes in the country's political debate.

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**Who acts:** Ethnic tensions, country · **What happens:** be, issue, debate · **To what, where:** powerful themes, political debate, slavery past

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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 (Ethnic tensions, country), 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:70
# text = Ethnic tensions and the sensitive issue of slavery – past and, in some areas, present – are still powerful themes in the country's political debate.
1	Ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	–	–	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	themes	theme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ethnic tensions and the sensitive issue of slavery past and some areas and present – | powerful themes |  | the country's political debate | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **issue** |  |  | slavery past |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **debate** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom debate «communication transitive»: poss=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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