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title: The men's team performed better than any other African nation at the… — Senegal · tree and pragmatics
description: The men's team performed better than any other African nation at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, reaching the playoffs for the first time. Who acts: team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Senegal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Senegal, sentence 321

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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 men's team performed better than any other African nation at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, reaching the playoffs for the first time.

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**Who acts:** team · **What happens:** perform, reach · **To what, where:** playoffs

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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 (team), 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:321
# text = The men's team performed better than any other African nation at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, reaching the playoffs for the first time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
15	FIBA	FIBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	playoffs	playoff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past | the men's team |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | the men's team *not said here* | the playoffs |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent playoff=Theme |

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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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