Libreville, sentence 80
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 historic Port of Owendo, located approximately 20 km from the city centre, handles containerised, general cargo and bulk traffic and has been the country's principal commercial harbour since the 1970s.
Who acts: historic Port · What happens: locate, containeris, be · To what, where: 20 km, city centre, handles, principal commercial harbour
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 (historic Port), 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 | 3 Port | det |
| 2 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Port | amod |
| 3 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 harbour | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Owendo | case |
| 5 | Owendo | Owendo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Port | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 located | punct |
| 7 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 harbour | nsubj |
| 8 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 9 20 | advmod |
| 9 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 km | nummod |
| 10 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 located | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 centre | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 centre | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 centre | compound |
| 14 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 located | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 handles | punct |
| 16 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 centre | appos |
| 17 | containerised | containeris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 handles | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cargo | punct |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cargo | amod |
| 20 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 handles | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 traffic | cc |
| 22 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traffic | compound |
| 23 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cargo | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 been | cc |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 been | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 harbour | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 harbour | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 country | case |
| 30 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 harbour | amod |
| 31 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 harbour | amod |
| 32 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 33 | since | since | ADP | _ | 35 1970s | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 1970s | det |
| 35 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 32 harbour | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 harbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | 20 km | the city centre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | containeris | participle | handles general cargo and bulk traffic not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | the historic Port of Owendo | the country's principal commercial harbour | since the 1970s | the country nmod:poss | 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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