Equatorial Guinea, sentence 155
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.
According to opponents, the objective of the mercenaries was to help consolidate a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power to his son "Teodorín".
Who acts: objective · What happens: accord, be, consolidate · To what, where: hypothetical succession
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 (objective), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 opponents | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 help | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 opponents | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 objective | det |
| 6 | objective | objective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mercenaries | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mercenaries | det |
| 9 | mercenaries | mercenary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 objective | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | consolidate | consolidate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 succession | det |
| 15 | hypothetical | hypothetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 succession | amod |
| 16 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consolidate | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 18 | Obiang | Obiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Obiang | case |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 succession | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consolidate | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Teodorín | punct |
| 25 | Teodorín | Teodorín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 son | appos |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Teodorín | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the objective of the mercenaries | accord opponents; help property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consolidate | infinitive | the objective of the mercenaries not said here | a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power | to Obiang's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent succession=Patient to son=Co-Patient |
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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