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title: The Serer people stood out as one of this group, who spent over one… — Senegal · tree and pragmatics
description: The Serer people stood out as one of this group, who spent over one thousand years resisting Islamization (see Serer history). Who acts: Serer people, group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Senegal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Senegal, sentence 243

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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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The Serer people stood out as one of this group, who spent over one thousand years resisting Islamization (see Serer history).

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**Who acts:** Serer people, group · **What happens:** stand out, spend, resist, see · **To what, where:** Islamization, Serer history

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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 (Serer people, group), 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:243
# text = The Serer people stood out as one of this group, who spent over one thousand years resisting Islamization (see Serer history).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Serer	Serer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	resisting	resist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	Islamization	islamization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	Serer	Serer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand out** | past | the Serer people |  |  |  |  | as one of this group | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past | this group |  |  |  | year |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **resist** | gerund | this group *not said here* | Islamization |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | this group *not said here* | Serer history |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |

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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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