Equatorial Guinea, sentence 91
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.
When the War broke out Francisco Franco ordered Nationalist forces based in the Canaries to ensure control over Equatorial Guinea.
Who acts: War, Francisco, Nationalist forces · What happens: break out, order, base, ensure · To what, where: Nationalist forces, control, Equatorial Guinea
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 (War, Francisco, Nationalist forces), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 War | det |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 broke | compound:prt |
| 6 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | Franco | Franco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Francisco | flat |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Nationalist | nationalist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forces | amod |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ordered | obj |
| 11 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Canaries | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Canaries | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Canaries | det |
| 14 | Canaries | Canary | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 forces | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ensure | mark |
| 16 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ensure | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 Guinea | case |
| 19 | Equatorial | Equatorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Guinea | compound |
| 20 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 control | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | the War | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | order | past | Francisco | Nationalist forces | base the Canaries | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent force=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | ensure not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nationalist forces not said here | control | Equatorial Guinea | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition control=Theme |
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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