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title: Before the nation's independence from Spain, Equatorial Guinea expor… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the nation's independence from Spain, Equatorial Guinea exported cocoa, coffee and timber, mostly to its colonial ruler, Spain, but also to Germany and the UK. Who acts: Equatorial. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 238

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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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Before the nation's independence from Spain, Equatorial Guinea exported cocoa, coffee and timber, mostly to its colonial ruler, Spain, but also to Germany and the UK.

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**Who acts:** Equatorial · **What happens:** export · **To what, where:** cocoa, Germany, colonial ruler

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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 (Equatorial), 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:238
# text = Before the nation's independence from Spain, Equatorial Guinea exported cocoa, coffee and timber, mostly to its colonial ruler, Spain, but also to Germany and the UK.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	exported	export	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **export** | past | Equatorial | cocoa and coffee and timber | Germany and the UK | timber's colonial ruler | before the nation's independence from Spain |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cocoa=Theme to ruler=Destination |

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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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