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title: After several military losses to the Polisario–heavily armed and sup… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: After several military losses to the Polisario–heavily armed and supported by Algeria, the regional power and rival to Morocco–Mauritania withdrew in 1979. Who acts: Mauritania. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 74

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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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After several military losses to the Polisario–heavily armed and supported by Algeria, the regional power and rival to Morocco–Mauritania withdrew in 1979.

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**Who acts:** Mauritania · **What happens:** support, withdraw · **To what, where:** 1979

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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), 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:74
# text = After several military losses to the Polisario–heavily armed and supported by Algeria, the regional power and rival to Morocco–Mauritania withdrew in 1979.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Polisario	Polisario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | participle | Mauritania *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Algeria *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past | Mauritania |  |  | 1979 | after several military losses to the Polisario |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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