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title: Senegal has traditionally been one of Africa's dominant basketball p… — Senegal · tree and pragmatics
description: Senegal has traditionally been one of Africa's dominant basketball powers. Who acts: Senegal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Senegal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Senegal, sentence 320

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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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Senegal has traditionally been one of Africa's dominant basketball powers.

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**Who acts:** Senegal · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (Senegal), 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:320
# text = Senegal has traditionally been one of Africa's dominant basketball powers.
1	Senegal	senegal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Senegal |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | one |  |  |  | of Africa's dominant basketball powers; traditionally *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, «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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