Gabon, sentence 207
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At the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government embarked in the 1990s on a program of privatization of its state-owned companies and administrative reform, including reducing public sector employment and salary growth.
Who acts: government, World Bank · What happens: embark, own, reduce, insist, program, privatize · To what, where: insistence, public sector employment, privatization, owned companies
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 (government, World Bank), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 insistence | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 insistence | det |
| 3 | insistence | insistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 embarked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bank | det |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bank | compound |
| 7 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 insistence | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Monetary | cc |
| 9 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Monetary | amod |
| 10 | Monetary | Monetary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bank | conj |
| 11 | Fund | Fund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Monetary | flat |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 IMF | punct |
| 13 | IMF | imf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Monetary | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 IMF | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 insistence | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 embarked | nsubj |
| 18 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1990s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 1990s | det |
| 21 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 18 embarked | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 program | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 program | det |
| 24 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 embarked | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 privatization | case |
| 26 | privatization | privatization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 program | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 companies | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 companies | nmod:poss |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 owned | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 state | punct |
| 31 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 companies | amod |
| 32 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 privatization | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 reform | cc |
| 34 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 reform | amod |
| 35 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 program | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 reducing | punct |
| 37 | including | including | ADP | _ | 38 reducing | mark |
| 38 | reducing | reduce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 embarked | advcl |
| 39 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 employment | amod |
| 40 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 employment | compound |
| 41 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reducing | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 growth | cc |
| 43 | salary | salary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 growth | compound |
| 44 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 employment | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 embarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | past | the government | the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary | in the 1990s; on a program of privatization of government's owned companies and administrative reform | tree rules | |||
| 2 | own | participle | state compound | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | reduce | gerund | the government not said here | public sector employment and salary growth | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer employment=Patient | ||||
| 4 | insist | the World Bank and International Monetary | nom insistence «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | program | privatization of government's owned companies | nom program «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | privatize | government's owned companies | nom privatization «act transitive»: of=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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