Equatorial Guinea, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Equatorial Guinea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In July 1968 virtually all Bubi leaders went to the UN in New York to try to raise awareness for their cause, but the world community was uninterested in quibbling over the specifics of colonial independence.
Who acts: Bubi leaders, UN · What happens: go, try, raise, uninterest, quibble, cause · To what, where: UN, awareness, world community
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Equatorial Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bubi leaders, UN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 July | case |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 3 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 leaders | det |
| 6 | Bubi | Bubi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 leaders | compound |
| 7 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 UN | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UN | det |
| 11 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 York | case |
| 13 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 York | flat |
| 14 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 UN | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 raise | mark |
| 18 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | xcomp |
| 19 | awareness | awareness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 raise | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 cause | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cause | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 raise | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 uninterested | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 uninterested | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 community | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 community | compound |
| 27 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 uninterested | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 uninterested | aux:pass |
| 29 | uninterested | uninterest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | conj |
| 30 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 31 quibbling | mark |
| 31 | quibbling | quibble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 uninterested | advcl |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 specifics | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 specifics | det |
| 34 | specifics | specifics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 31 quibbling | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 independence | case |
| 36 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 independence | amod |
| 37 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 specifics | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | all Bubi leaders | the UN in New York | july | virtually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to un=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | all Bubi leaders not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | raise not said to happen | to-infinitive | all Bubi leaders not said here | awareness | for UN's cause | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awareness=Theme | |||
| 4 | uninterest | past · passive | the world community | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | quibble | gerund | over the specifics of colonial independence | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over specifics=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cause | UN | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Equatorial Guinea», 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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