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title: It is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River, forming a transborder agglomeration with the city of Kousséri (in Cameroon), capital of the Department of Logone-et-Chari, which is on the west bank of both rivers. Who acts: city, capital. A sentence of Wikipedia'
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# N'Djamena, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«N'Djamena»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Djamena), 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 is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River, forming a transborder agglomeration with the city of Kousséri (in Cameroon), capital of the Department of Logone-et-Chari, which is on the west bank of both rivers.

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**Who acts:** city, capital · **What happens:** be, locate, form · **To what, where:** port city, confluence, transborder agglomeration, west bank

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «N'Djamena». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, capital), 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:N'Djamena:14
# text = It is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River, forming a transborder agglomeration with the city of Kousséri (in Cameroon), capital of the Department of Logone-et-Chari, which is on the west bank of both rivers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	confluence	confluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Logone	Logone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Chari	Chari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	transborder	transborder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	agglomeration	agglomeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kousséri	Kousséri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	Logone	Logone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	et	ET	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Chari	Chari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | city | a port city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | participle |  | a port city *not said here* |  | the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | gerund |  | a transborder agglomeration |  |  |  | with the city of Kousséri and capital of the Department of Logone et Chari | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agglomeration=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | capital of the Department of Logone et Chari |  |  | the west bank |  | of both rivers | tree rules |

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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, «N'Djamena», 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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