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title: The city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Sahelian Highway, and… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Sahelian Highway, and is linked to East Africa by the (largely unpaved) N'Djamena–Djibouti Highway. Who acts: city, unpaved N'Djamena Highway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «N'Djamena» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# N'Djamena, sentence 92

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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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The city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Sahelian Highway, and is linked to East Africa by the (largely unpaved) N'Djamena–Djibouti Highway.

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**Who acts:** city, unpaved N'Djamena Highway · **What happens:** be, link, unpav · **To what, where:** eastern terminus, East

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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, unpaved N'Djamena Highway), 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:92
# text = The city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Sahelian Highway, and is linked to East Africa by the (largely unpaved) N'Djamena–Djibouti Highway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	terminus	terminus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Trans	Tran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Sahelian	Sahelian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Highway	Highway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	unpaved	unpav	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	N'Djamena	N'Djamena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
29	Highway	Highway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the city | the eastern terminus |  |  |  | of the Trans and Sahelian | tree rules |
| 2 | **link** | present · passive | the unpaved N'Djamena Highway |  | East |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to east=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **unpav** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | largely *property* | 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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