Equatorial Guinea, sentence 51

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.

From 1827 to 1843 the Spanish leased a base in Bioko to the United Kingdom, which the British had sought as part of their efforts to suppress the slave trade.

Who acts: Spanish · What happens: lease, seek, suppress · To what, where: base, 1827, United Kingdom, slave trade

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 (Spanish), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1827	case
2	1827	1827	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 leased	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1843	case
4	1843	1843	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1827	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Spanish	det
6	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leased	nsubj
7	leased	lease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 base	det
9	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leased	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Bioko	case
11	Bioko	Bioko	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leased	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Kingdom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Kingdom	det
14	United	United	PROPN	_	15 Kingdom	flat
15	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leased	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sought	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sought	nsubj:pass
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 British	det
19	British	British	PROPN	_	21 sought	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sought	aux
21	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Kingdom	acl:relcl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 part	case
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 efforts	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 efforts	nmod:poss
26	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 part	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 suppress	mark
28	suppress	suppress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sought	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trade	det
30	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trade	compound
31	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 suppress	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lease	past	the Spanish	a base	1827 to 1843	in Bioko; to the United Kingdom	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent base=Theme from 1827=Source
2	seek	past · perfect · passive		the United Kingdom		as part of parts's efforts; the British nsubj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	suppress	to-infinitive		the slave trade			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=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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Equatorial Guinea, sentence 51