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title: From 2004 to 2014, the population in the park declined by 78-81%, a… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: From 2004 to 2014, the population in the park declined by 78-81%, a loss of more than 25,000 elephants, primarily due to poaching. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 197

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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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From 2004 to 2014, the population in the park declined by 78-81%, a loss of more than 25,000 elephants, primarily due to poaching.

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**What happens:** decline · **To what, where:** park, 2004

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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: 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:197
# text = From 2004 to 2014, the population in the park declined by 78-81%, a loss of more than 25,000 elephants, primarily due to poaching.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	78-81	78-81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	25,000	25000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	poaching	poaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | participle |  | the park and a loss of 25,000 elephants and poaching *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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