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title: To adapt, Gabon prioritises protecting its coastal areas, as well as… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: To adapt, Gabon prioritises protecting its coastal areas, as well as its fishing, agriculture, and forestry industries. Who acts: Gabon, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 184

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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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To adapt, Gabon prioritises protecting its coastal areas, as well as its fishing, agriculture, and forestry industries.

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**Who acts:** Gabon, country · **What happens:** adapt, prioritise, protect, fish · **To what, where:** fishing, coastal areas

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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 (Gabon, country), 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:184
# text = To adapt, Gabon prioritises protecting its coastal areas, as well as its fishing, agriculture, and forestry industries.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	adapt	adapt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prioritises	prioritise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	forestry	forestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prioritise** | present | Gabon | country's fishing and agriculture and forestry industries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | gerund | Gabon *not said here* | country's coastal areas |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fish** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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, «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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