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title: It also recognises long historical ties with Portugal and with Portu… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: It also recognises long historical ties with Portugal and with Portuguese-speaking peoples of Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Cape Verde. Who acts: legislature. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 308

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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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It also recognises long historical ties with Portugal and with Portuguese-speaking peoples of Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Cape Verde.

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**Who acts:** legislature · **What happens:** recognise, speak · **To what, where:** historical ties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (legislature), 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:308
# text = It also recognises long historical ties with Portugal and with Portuguese-speaking peoples of Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Cape Verde.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	recognises	recognise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Príncipe	Príncipe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Verde	Verde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | present | legislature | historical ties |  |  |  | with Portugal and speaking peoples of Brazil and São and Príncipe; Cape Verde *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tie=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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