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title: Between the late 16th and 18th centuries, European merchants frequen… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: Between the late 16th and 18th centuries, European merchants frequented the coast for the ivory and slave trades mediated by local brokers. Who acts: European merchants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 27

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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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Between the late 16th and 18th centuries, European merchants frequented the coast for the ivory and slave trades mediated by local brokers.

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**Who acts:** European merchants · **What happens:** frequent, mediate · **To what, where:** coast, slave trades

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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 (European merchants), 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:27
# text = Between the late 16th and 18th centuries, European merchants frequented the coast for the ivory and slave trades mediated by local brokers.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	frequented	frequent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trades	trade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	mediated	mediate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brokers	broker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frequent** | past | European merchants | the coast |  |  |  | between the late 16th and 18th centuries; for the ivory and slave trades | tree rules |
| 2 | **mediate** | participle |  | slave trades *not said here* |  |  |  | by local brokers | tree rules |

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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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