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title: It became increasingly contested due to his harsh and uncompromising… — Mauritania · tree and pragmatics
description: It became increasingly contested due to his harsh and uncompromising measures against opponents; many dissidents were jailed, and some executed. Who acts: regime. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritania, sentence 92

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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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It became increasingly contested due to his harsh and uncompromising measures against opponents; many dissidents were jailed, and some executed.

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**Who acts:** regime · **What happens:** become, contest, uncompromis, jail, execute · **To what, where:** measures, many dissidents, some

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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 (regime), 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:92
# text = It became increasingly contested due to his harsh and uncompromising measures against opponents; many dissidents were jailed, and some executed.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contested	contest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	uncompromising	uncompromis	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dissidents	dissident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	jailed	jail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | regime |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contest** | participle | regime *not said here* |  |  |  |  | due, increasingly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **uncompromis** | gerund | regime *not said here* | measures |  |  |  | against opponents | tree rules |
| 4 | **jail** | past · passive |  | many dissidents |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **execute** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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