Equatorial Guinea, sentence 87
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.
Campaigns were mounted to subdue the Fang people in the 1920s, at the time that Liberia was beginning to cut back on recruitment.
Who acts: Liberia · What happens: mount, subdue, begin, cut back · To what, where: Campaigns, Fang people, 1920s, time, recruitment
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 (Liberia), 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 | Campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux:pass |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 subdue | mark |
| 5 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mounted | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | Fang | Fang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 subdue | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1920s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 1920s | det |
| 11 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subdue | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 beginning | mark |
| 17 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beginning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beginning | aux |
| 19 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 time | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cut | mark |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 beginning | xcomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 cut | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 recruitment | case |
| 24 | recruitment | recruitment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Campaigns | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | subdue | to-infinitive | the Fang people | the 1920s | time | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 3 | begin | past · progressive | Liberia | the time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut back | to-infinitive | Liberia not said here | recruitment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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