Gabon, sentence 27
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 the late 16th and 18th centuries, European merchants frequented the coast for the ivory and slave trades mediated by local brokers.
Who acts: European merchants · What happens: frequent, mediate · To what, where: coast, slave trades
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 (European merchants), 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 | _ | 4 16th | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 16th | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 16th | amod |
| 4 | 16th | 16th | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 frequented | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 centuries | cc |
| 6 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 centuries | amod |
| 7 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 16th | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 16th | punct |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 merchants | amod |
| 10 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 frequented | nsubj |
| 11 | frequented | frequent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frequented | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ivory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ivory | det |
| 16 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frequented | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trades | cc |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trades | compound |
| 19 | trades | trade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ivory | conj |
| 20 | mediated | mediate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 trades | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 brokers | case |
| 22 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brokers | amod |
| 23 | brokers | broker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mediated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 frequented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frequent | past | European merchants | the coast | between the late 16th and 18th centuries; for the ivory and slave trades | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mediate | participle | slave trades not said here | by local brokers | tree rules |
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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