Libreville, sentence 74
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.
Following the fall in oil prices in the mid-1980s, the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc, and the progressive depletion of older fields, successive Gabonese governments have pursued policies aimed at diversifying the urban economy away from oil-rent dependence.
Who acts: CFA franc · What happens: follow, pursue, aim, diversify, devaluate, deplete · To what, where: progressive depletion, policies, urban economy, older fields
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 (CFA franc), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 prices | case |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prices | compound |
| 6 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mid-1980s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mid-1980s | det |
| 9 | mid-1980s | mid-1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 prices | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 devaluation | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 devaluation | det |
| 12 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 devaluation | nummod |
| 13 | devaluation | devaluation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mid-1980s | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 franc | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 franc | det |
| 16 | CFA | CFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 franc | compound |
| 17 | franc | franc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devaluation | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pursued | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pursued | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 depletion | det |
| 21 | progressive | progressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 depletion | amod |
| 22 | depletion | depletion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pursued | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fields | case |
| 24 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 fields | amod |
| 25 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 depletion | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 depletion | punct |
| 27 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 governments | amod |
| 28 | Gabonese | gabonese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 governments | amod |
| 29 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pursued | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 pursued | aux |
| 31 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fall | conj |
| 32 | policies | policy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pursued | obj |
| 33 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 policies | acl |
| 34 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 35 diversifying | mark |
| 35 | diversifying | diversify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 aimed | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 economy | det |
| 37 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 economy | amod |
| 38 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 diversifying | obj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 diversifying | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 dependence | case |
| 41 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rent | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 oil | punct |
| 43 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dependence | compound |
| 44 | dependence | dependence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 away | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pursue | present · perfect · passive | the progressive depletion of older fields | successive Gabonese governments nsubj; policies obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | aim | participle | policies not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | diversify | gerund | the urban economy | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient | ||||
| 6 | devaluate | the CFA franc | nom devaluation «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | deplete | older fields | nom depletion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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