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title: The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were likely the Bakas (pygmies)… — Yaoundé · tree and pragmatics
description: The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were likely the Bakas (pygmies), who still inhabit the forests of the south and east regions. Who acts: earliest inhabitants, Bakas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yaoundé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yaoundé, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Yaoundé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoundé), 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 earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were likely the Bakas (pygmies), who still inhabit the forests of the south and east regions.

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**Who acts:** earliest inhabitants, Bakas · **What happens:** be, inhabit · **To what, where:** Bakas, forests

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yaoundé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest inhabitants, Bakas), 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:Yaoundé:10
# text = The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were likely the Bakas (pygmies), who still inhabit the forests of the south and east regions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bakas	Bakas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the earliest inhabitants of Cameroon | the Bakas |  |  |  | pygmies *appos*; likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inhabit** | present | the Bakas | the forests of the south and east regions |  |  | still |  | 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, «Yaoundé», 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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