Libreville, sentence 16
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.
Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon colony between 1888 and 1904, when the capital moved to Brazzaville.
Who acts: Libreville, capital · What happens: be, move · To what, where: administrative capital, Brazzaville
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 (Libreville, capital), 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 | Libreville | Libreville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capital | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 4 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 capital | amod |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 colony | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 colony | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 France | case |
| 9 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gabon | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Congo | punct |
| 11 | Gabon | Gabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 colony | compound |
| 12 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | nmod |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 1888 | case |
| 14 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 colony | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 1904 | cc |
| 16 | 1904 | 1904 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1888 | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 moved | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 capital | det |
| 20 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capital | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Brazzaville | case |
| 23 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 moved | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Libreville | the administrative capital | of France's Gabon colony between 1888 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | past | the capital | Brazzaville | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brazzaville=Result |
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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