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title: In July 1968 virtually all Bubi leaders went to the UN in New York t… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: In July 1968 virtually all Bubi leaders went to the UN in New York to try to raise awareness for their cause, but the world community was uninterested in quibbling over the specifics of colonial independence. Who acts: Bubi leaders, UN. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependen
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Equatorial Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea), 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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In July 1968 virtually all Bubi leaders went to the UN in New York to try to raise awareness for their cause, but the world community was uninterested in quibbling over the specifics of colonial independence.

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**Who acts:** Bubi leaders, UN · **What happens:** go, try, raise, uninterest, quibble, cause · **To what, where:** UN, awareness, world community

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Equatorial Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bubi leaders, UN), 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:Equatorial_Guinea:117
# text = In July 1968 virtually all Bubi leaders went to the UN in New York to try to raise awareness for their cause, but the world community was uninterested in quibbling over the specifics of colonial independence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	Bubi	Bubi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	awareness	awareness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	uninterested	uninterest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
30	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	quibbling	quibble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	specifics	specifics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | all Bubi leaders |  |  | the UN in New York | july | virtually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to un=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | all Bubi leaders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **raise** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all Bubi leaders *not said here* | awareness |  |  |  | for UN's cause | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awareness=Theme |
| 4 | **uninterest** | past · passive |  | the world community |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **quibble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over the specifics of colonial independence | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over specifics=Theme |
| 6 | **cause** |  | UN |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Equatorial Guinea», 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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