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title: Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Gabonese politician, 3rd President of… — Brazzaville · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Gabonese politician, 3rd President of Gabon since 2009 Who acts: Ali. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazzaville» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazzaville, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Brazzaville»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Gabonese politician, 3rd President of Gabon since 2009

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1959, Ali

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazzaville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Brazzaville:119
# text = Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Gabonese politician, 3rd President of Gabon since 2009
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bongo	Bongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ondimba	Ondimba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Gabonese	gabonese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	3rd	3rd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Ali *not said here* | 1959 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1959=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Brazzaville», 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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