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title: Travel time by road between Douala and Yaounde is approximately 3 ho… — Yaoundé · tree and pragmatics
description: Travel time by road between Douala and Yaounde is approximately 3 hours. Who acts: Travel time. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yaoundé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yaoundé, sentence 70

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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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Travel time by road between Douala and Yaounde is approximately 3 hours.

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**Who acts:** Travel time · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 3 hours

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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 (Travel time), 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:70
# text = Travel time by road between Douala and Yaounde is approximately 3 hours.
1	Travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Douala	Douala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Yaounde	Yaounde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Travel time by road between Douala and Yaounde | 3 hours |  |  |  | approximately *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, «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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