Gabon, sentence 136
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.
Between 50 and 100 citizens were killed by security forces, and 1,000 were arrested.
Who acts: security forces · What happens: kill, arrest · To what, where: 50 citizens, 1,000
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 (security 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 50 | case |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 citizens | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 100 | cc |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 50 | conj |
| 5 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux:pass |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 forces | case |
| 9 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forces | compound |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 killed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrested | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrested | cc |
| 13 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 arrested | aux:pass |
| 15 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 killed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | security forces | 50 citizens | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrest | past · passive | 1,000 | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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