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title: According to opponents, the objective of the mercenaries was to help… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: According to opponents, the objective of the mercenaries was to help consolidate a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power to his son "Teodorín". Who acts: objective. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 155

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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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According to opponents, the objective of the mercenaries was to help consolidate a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power to his son "Teodorín".

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**Who acts:** objective · **What happens:** accord, be, consolidate · **To what, where:** hypothetical succession

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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 (objective), 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:155
# text = According to opponents, the objective of the mercenaries was to help consolidate a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power to his son "Teodorín".
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	objective	objective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mercenaries	mercenary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	consolidate	consolidate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hypothetical	hypothetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Obiang	Obiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Teodorín	Teodorín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the objective of the mercenaries |  |  |  |  | accord opponents; help *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consolidate** | infinitive | the objective of the mercenaries *not said here* | a hypothetical succession of Obiang's power |  |  |  | to Obiang's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent succession=Patient to son=Co-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, «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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