--- title: At the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics description: At the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government embarked in the 1990s on a program of privatization of its state-owned companies and administrative reform, including reducing public sector employment and salary growth. Who acts: government, World Bank. 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At the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government embarked in the 1990s on a program of privatization of its state-owned companies and administrative reform, including reducing public sector employment and salary growth. **Who acts:** government, World Bank · **What happens:** embark, own, reduce, insist, program, privatize · **To what, where:** insistence, public sector employment, privatization, owned companies 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 (government, World Bank), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:207 # text = At the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government embarked in the 1990s on a program of privatization of its state-owned companies and administrative reform, including reducing public sector employment and salary growth. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 insistence insistence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Bank Bank PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 International International ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Monetary Monetary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 Fund Fund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 IMF imf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 embarked embark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 1990s 1990s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 program program NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 privatization privatization NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 29 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 administrative administrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 reform reform NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 including including ADP IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 reducing reduce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 39 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 sector sector NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 salary salary NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **embark** | past | the government | | | the insistence of the World Bank and International Monetary | | in the 1990s; on a program of privatization of government's owned companies and administrative reform | tree rules | | 2 | **own** | participle | | | | | | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **reduce** | gerund | the government *not said here* | public sector employment and salary growth | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer employment=Patient | | 4 | **insist** | | the World Bank and International Monetary | | | | | | nom insistence «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **program** | | | privatization of government's owned companies | | | | | nom program «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **privatize** | | | government's owned companies | | | | | nom privatization «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/206/) - next →: [sentence 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/208/) - ↑ back to [Gabon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/)