Libreville, sentence 144
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.
Government strategy has increasingly sought to position the Libreville region as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer, drawing on Akanda National Park to the north and Pongara National Park across the Gabon Estuary, and on cruise-ship visits calling at the deep-water quays of Owendo.
Who acts: ship visits, Gabon · What happens: seek, draw, call, offer · To what, where: Government strategy, ship visits, Akanda National Park · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (ship visits, Gabon), 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 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strategy | compound |
| 2 | strategy | strategy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux |
| 4 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 5 sought | advmod |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 position | mark |
| 7 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 region | det |
| 9 | Libreville | Libreville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 region | compound |
| 10 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gateway | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gateway | det |
| 13 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 offer | case |
| 15 | Gabon | Gabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Gabon | case |
| 17 | ecotourism | ecotourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | compound |
| 18 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gateway | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawing | punct |
| 20 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sought | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Park | case |
| 22 | Akanda | Akanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Park | compound |
| 23 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Park | amod |
| 24 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drawing | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 north | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 north | det |
| 27 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawing | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Park | cc |
| 29 | Pongara | Pongara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Park | compound |
| 30 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Park | amod |
| 31 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 north | conj |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 Estuary | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Estuary | det |
| 34 | Gabon | Gabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Estuary | compound |
| 35 | Estuary | Estuary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drawing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 visits | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 visits | cc |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 visits | case |
| 39 | cruise | cruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ship | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 cruise | punct |
| 41 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 visits | compound |
| 42 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sought | obl |
| 43 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 visits | acl |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 quays | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 quays | det |
| 46 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 water | amod |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 deep | punct |
| 48 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 quays | compound |
| 49 | quays | quay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 calling | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Owendo | case |
| 51 | Owendo | Owendo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 quays | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | Government strategy | ship visits | as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer; the Libreville region obl:unmarked; position xcomp; increasingly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on visit=Location | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Akanda National Park | to the north and Pongara National Park; across the Gabon Estuary | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | ship visits not said here | at the water quays of Owendo | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at quay=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | offer | Gabon | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Libreville», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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