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title: Its strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria has… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
description: Its strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria has historically made it an important crossroads for trade and cultural exchange in the region. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «N'Djamena» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# N'Djamena, sentence 6

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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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Its strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria has historically made it an important crossroads for trade and cultural exchange in the region.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** make, crossroad · **To what, where:** strategic location

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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), 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:6
# text = Its strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria has historically made it an important crossroads for trade and cultural exchange in the region.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | city's strategic location near the borders of Cameroon and Nigeria |  |  |  | historically *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **crossroad** |  | city |  |  |  |  | for trade; cultural exchange in the region *conj* | 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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