Libreville, sentence 182
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.
From 1975 until 2025, Libreville hosted the French Army's 6th Marine Infantry Battalion (6e BIMa) at Camp de Gaulle, close to Léon-Mba International Airport, which for decades provided a significant source of rental demand, procurement spending and local employment in Libreville.
Who acts: Libreville, decades · What happens: host, provide · To what, where: Marine Infantry, 1975, 6e
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, decades), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1975 | case |
| 2 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 hosted | obl |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 2025 | case |
| 4 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1975 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1975 | punct |
| 6 | Libreville | Libreville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hosted | nsubj |
| 7 | hosted | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Army | det |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Army | amod |
| 10 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 6th | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Army | case |
| 12 | 6th | 6th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 Infantry | nsubj |
| 13 | Marine | Marine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Infantry | compound |
| 14 | Infantry | Infantry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hosted | obj |
| 15 | Battalion | Battalion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Infantry | flat |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 6e | punct |
| 17 | 6e | 6e | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 Infantry | appos |
| 18 | BIMa | BIMa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 6e | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 BIMa | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Camp | case |
| 21 | Camp | Camp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 6e | nmod |
| 22 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Camp | flat |
| 23 | Gaulle | Gaulle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Camp | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 close | punct |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 6e | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Airport | case |
| 27 | Léon | Léon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mba | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Léon | punct |
| 29 | Mba | Mba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Airport | compound |
| 30 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Airport | amod |
| 31 | Airport | Airport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 close | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 provided | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 provided | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 decades | case |
| 35 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 provided | nsubj |
| 36 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 6e | acl:relcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 source | det |
| 38 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 source | amod |
| 39 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 provided | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 demand | case |
| 41 | rental | rental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 demand | amod |
| 42 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 source | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 spending | punct |
| 44 | procurement | procurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 spending | compound |
| 45 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 demand | appos |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 employment | cc |
| 47 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 employment | amod |
| 48 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 spending | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 Libreville | case |
| 50 | Libreville | Libreville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 spending | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hosted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | host | past | Libreville | Marine Infantry the French Army's 6th | 1975 until 2025 | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infantry=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | provide | past | decades | 6e at Camp | a significant source of rental demand obj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition which=Beneficiary source=Theme |
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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