Gabon, sentence 196
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.
The nation is home to more than half the population of African forest elephants, many of them living in Minkébé National Park.
Who acts: nation, many · What happens: be, live · To what, where: population, Minkébé
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 (nation, many), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nation | det |
| 2 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 population | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 population | cop |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 population | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 population | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 half | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 population | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 population | det |
| 10 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 elephants | case |
| 12 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 elephants | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elephants | compound |
| 14 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 population | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 living | punct |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 living | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 population | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Minkébé | case |
| 21 | Minkébé | Minkébé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 living | obl |
| 22 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Park | amod |
| 23 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Minkébé | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 population | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the nation | to half population; of African forest elephants; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | many of nations | half population not said here | Minkébé | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme population=Location |
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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