Gabon, sentence 123
From Wikipedia, «Gabon», 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.
To reduce corruption and government bloat, he eliminated 17 minister-level positions, abolished the vice presidency and reorganized the portfolios of some ministries, bureaus and directorates.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: reduce, eliminate, abolish, reorganize · To what, where: corruption, 17 level positions, vice presidency, portfolios
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Gabon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 reduce | mark |
| 2 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reduce | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bloat | cc |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bloat | compound |
| 6 | bloat | bloat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corruption | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eliminated | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eliminated | nsubj |
| 9 | eliminated | eliminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reduce | parataxis |
| 10 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 positions | nummod |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 level | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 minister | punct |
| 13 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 positions | compound |
| 14 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eliminated | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 abolished | punct |
| 16 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eliminated | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 presidency | det |
| 18 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presidency | compound |
| 19 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 abolished | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reorganized | cc |
| 21 | reorganized | reorganize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 presidency | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 portfolios | det |
| 23 | portfolios | portfolio | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reorganized | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ministries | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 ministries | det |
| 26 | ministries | ministry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 portfolios | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bureaus | punct |
| 28 | bureaus | bureau | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ministries | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 directorates | cc |
| 30 | directorates | directorate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ministries | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reduce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | to-infinitive | corruption and government bloat | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer corruption=Patient | |||||
| 2 | eliminate | past | Ali | 17 level positions | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient | ||||
| 3 | abolish | past | Ali not said here | the vice presidency | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presidency=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reorganize | participle | Ali not said here | the portfolios of some ministries and bureaus and directorates | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portfolio=Result |
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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