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title: When the War broke out Francisco Franco ordered Nationalist forces b… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: When the War broke out Francisco Franco ordered Nationalist forces based in the Canaries to ensure control over Equatorial Guinea. Who acts: War, Francisco, Nationalist forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 91

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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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When the War broke out Francisco Franco ordered Nationalist forces based in the Canaries to ensure control over Equatorial Guinea.

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**Who acts:** War, Francisco, Nationalist forces · **What happens:** break out, order, base, ensure · **To what, where:** Nationalist forces, control, Equatorial Guinea

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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 (War, Francisco, Nationalist forces), 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:91
# text = When the War broke out Francisco Franco ordered Nationalist forces based in the Canaries to ensure control over Equatorial Guinea.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Franco	Franco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Canaries	Canary	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	ensure	ensure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
17	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break out** | past | the War |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **order** | past | Francisco | Nationalist forces |  |  |  | base the Canaries | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent force=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ensure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nationalist forces *not said here* | control |  | Equatorial Guinea |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition control=Theme |

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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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