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title: Protests broke out in the capital and met repression, which culminat… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: Protests broke out in the capital and met repression, which culminated in the bombing of the opposition party headquarters, allegedly by the presidential guard. Who acts: Protests, repression. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 135

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From Wikipedia, [«Gabon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon), 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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Protests broke out in the capital and met repression, which culminated in the bombing of the opposition party headquarters, allegedly by the presidential guard.

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**Who acts:** Protests, repression · **What happens:** break out, meet, culminate, bomb · **To what, where:** capital, repression, bombing, party headquarters

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Gabon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Protests, repression), 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:Gabon:135
# text = Protests broke out in the capital and met repression, which culminated in the bombing of the opposition party headquarters, allegedly by the presidential guard.
1	Protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	repression	repression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	culminated	culminate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bombing	bombing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	allegedly	allegedly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break out** | past | Protests |  |  | the capital |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in capital=Location |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Protests *not said here* | repression |  |  |  | by the presidential guard | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repression=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **culminate** | past | repression |  |  | the bombing of the party headquarters |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bomb** |  |  | the party headquarters |  |  |  |  | nom bombing «act transitive»: of=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, «Gabon», 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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