---
title: In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin… — Nouakchott · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin a process of clearing the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott, as 24,000 families would eventually be relocated to planned housing in the city. Who acts: government, process. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nouakchott» with its dependenc
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/72/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Nouakchott](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/) / 72

# Nouakchott, sentence 72

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Nouakchott»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouakchott), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin a process of clearing the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott, as 24,000 families would eventually be relocated to planned housing in the city.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** government, process · **What happens:** announce, begin, clear, relocate, plan · **To what, where:** 2009, process, slum, outskirts, 24,000 families · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, process), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Nouakchott:72
# text = In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin a process of clearing the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott, as 24,000 families would eventually be relocated to planned housing in the city.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	slum	slum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Nouakchott	Nouakchott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	24,000	24000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	relocated	relocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	housing	housing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the government of Mauritania |  |  | 2009 |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | would | government | a process |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent process=Eventuality |
| 3 | **clear** | gerund | a process *not said here* | the slum |  | the outskirts of Nouakchott |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slum=Source |
| 4 | **relocate** | would · passive |  | 24,000 families |  |  |  | to planned housing in the city; eventually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nouakchott», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/71/)
- next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/73/)
- ↑ back to [Nouakchott](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/)