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title: This peaceful and democratic transition was hailed by many foreign o… — Senegal · tree and pragmatics
description: This peaceful and democratic transition was hailed by many foreign observers, including the EU, as a show of "maturity". Who acts: many foreign observers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Senegal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Senegal, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Senegal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal), 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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This peaceful and democratic transition was hailed by many foreign observers, including the EU, as a show of "maturity".

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**Who acts:** many foreign observers · **What happens:** hail, show · **To what, where:** peaceful transition, maturity

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Senegal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many foreign observers), 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:Senegal:103
# text = This peaceful and democratic transition was hailed by many foreign observers, including the EU, as a show of "maturity".
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hailed	hail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	including	including	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	maturity	maturity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hail** | past · passive | many foreign observers including the EU | this peaceful transition |  |  |  | a show of maturity *parataxis* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **show** |  |  | maturity |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: of=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, «Senegal», 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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