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title: From 1827 to 1843 the Spanish leased a base in Bioko to the United K… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1827 to 1843 the Spanish leased a base in Bioko to the United Kingdom, which the British had sought as part of their efforts to suppress the slave trade. Who acts: Spanish. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 51

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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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From 1827 to 1843 the Spanish leased a base in Bioko to the United Kingdom, which the British had sought as part of their efforts to suppress the slave trade.

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**Who acts:** Spanish · **What happens:** lease, seek, suppress · **To what, where:** base, 1827, United Kingdom, slave trade

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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 (Spanish), 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:51
# text = From 1827 to 1843 the Spanish leased a base in Bioko to the United Kingdom, which the British had sought as part of their efforts to suppress the slave trade.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1827	1827	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1843	1843	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leased	lease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bioko	Bioko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	15	flat	_	_
15	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	suppress	suppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lease** | past | the Spanish | a base |  | 1827 to 1843 |  | in Bioko; to the United Kingdom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent base=Theme from 1827=Source |
| 2 | **seek** | past · perfect · passive |  | the United Kingdom |  |  |  | as part of parts's efforts; the British *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **suppress** | to-infinitive |  | the slave trade |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=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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