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title: A distance outside Yaoundé is the NGO Ape Action Africa, which rescu… — Yaoundé · tree and pragmatics
description: A distance outside Yaoundé is the NGO Ape Action Africa, which rescues and rehabilitates great apes threatened with extinction by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades. Who acts: distance, Ape Action Africa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yaoundé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yaoundé, sentence 49

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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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A distance outside Yaoundé is the NGO Ape Action Africa, which rescues and rehabilitates great apes threatened with extinction by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades.

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**Who acts:** distance, Ape Action Africa · **What happens:** be, rescue, rehabilitate, threaten · **To what, where:** Ape Action Africa, great apes

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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 (distance, Ape Action Africa), 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:49
# text = A distance outside Yaoundé is the NGO Ape Action Africa, which rescues and rehabilitates great apes threatened with extinction by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Yaoundé	Yaoundé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	NGO	NGO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ape	Ape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Action	Action	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rescues	rescue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rehabilitates	rehabilitate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bushmeat	bushmeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	deforestation	deforestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	trades	trade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a distance outside Yaoundé | the Ape Action Africa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rescue** | present | the Ape Action Africa |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rehabilitate** | present | the Ape Action Africa *not said here* | great apes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **threaten** | participle |  | great apes *not said here* |  |  |  | with extinction; by the illegal bushmeat and deforestation trades | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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