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title: The nation is home to more than half the population of African fores… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: The nation is home to more than half the population of African forest elephants, many of them living in Minkébé National Park. Who acts: nation, many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 196

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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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The nation is home to more than half the population of African forest elephants, many of them living in Minkébé National Park.

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**Who acts:** nation, many · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** population, Minkébé

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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 (nation, many), 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:196
# text = The nation is home to more than half the population of African forest elephants, many of them living in Minkébé National Park.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Minkébé	Minkébé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the nation |  |  |  |  | to half population; of African forest elephants; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | many of nations | half population *not said here* |  | Minkébé |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme population=Location |

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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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