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title: Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts fou… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered. Who acts: Instability, ambitious reform attempts, Haidallah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 90

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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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Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered.

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**Who acts:** Instability, ambitious reform attempts, Haidallah · **What happens:** continue, founder, attempt

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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 (Instability, ambitious reform attempts, Haidallah), 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:90
# text = Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered.
1	Instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	Haidallah	Haidallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	foundered	founder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Instability |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **founder** | past | Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attempt** |  | Haidallah |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «act 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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