Libreville, sentence 124
From Wikipedia, «Libreville», 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 formal modern-retail segment is dominated by Lebanese- and French-owned hypermarkets and supermarkets (historically the Géant CKdo, Mbolo and Score chains), alongside smaller specialised outlets in the central business district around Boulevard de l'Indépendance.
What happens: dominate, own, specialis · To what, where: formal retail segment
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libreville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 6 segment | det |
| 2 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 segment | amod |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 retail | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 modern | punct |
| 5 | retail | retail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segment | compound |
| 6 | segment | segment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dominated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dominated | aux:pass |
| 8 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Lebanese | case |
| 10 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dominated | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 hypermarkets | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hypermarkets | cc |
| 13 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 owned | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 French | punct |
| 15 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hypermarkets | amod |
| 16 | hypermarkets | hypermarket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dominated | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 supermarkets | cc |
| 18 | supermarkets | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hypermarkets | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 CKdo | punct |
| 20 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 23 CKdo | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 CKdo | det |
| 22 | Géant | Géant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 CKdo | compound |
| 23 | CKdo | CKdo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hypermarkets | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Mbolo | punct |
| 25 | Mbolo | Mbolo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 CKdo | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Score | cc |
| 27 | Score | Score | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 CKdo | conj |
| 28 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 CKdo | flat |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 CKdo | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 outlets | punct |
| 31 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 34 outlets | case |
| 32 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 outlets | amod |
| 33 | specialised | specialis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 outlets | amod |
| 34 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dominated | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 district | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 district | det |
| 37 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 district | amod |
| 38 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 district | compound |
| 39 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 outlets | nmod |
| 40 | around | around | ADP | _ | 43 l'Indépendance | case |
| 41 | Boulevard | Boulevard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 l'Indépendance | compound |
| 42 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Boulevard | flat |
| 43 | l'Indépendance | l'indépendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 district | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | present · passive | the formal retail segment | by Lebanese; owned hypermarkets and supermarkets advcl; smaller specialised outlets in the central business district around Boulevard l'Indépendance conj | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | own | participle | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | specialis | participle | 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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