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title: However, the country has the second-highest Human Development Index… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the country has the second-highest Human Development Index among Sub-Saharan countries (rank 133rd), and 7.7% of children dying before the age of five in 2021, a continuous reduction from 17.9% in 1990. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tre
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 22

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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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However, the country has the second-highest Human Development Index among Sub-Saharan countries (rank 133rd), and 7.7% of children dying before the age of five in 2021, a continuous reduction from 17.9% in 1990.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** have, die · **To what, where:** second highest Human Development Index

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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 (country), 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:22
# text = However, the country has the second-highest Human Development Index among Sub-Saharan countries (rank 133rd), and 7.7% of children dying before the age of five in 2021, a continuous reduction from 17.9% in 1990.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
10	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Sub-Saharan	sub-saharan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	133rd	133rd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	7.7	7.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	reduction	reduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	17.9	17.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the country | the second highest Human Development Index |  |  |  | among Sub-Saharan countries  rank 133rd; however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent index=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  | before the age of five in 2021 |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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