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title: In 2024, the infant mortality rate declined to 25.9 per 1,000 live b… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2024, the infant mortality rate declined to 25.9 per 1,000 live births, which is the second lowest rate in Central Africa. Who acts: 1,000 live births. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 322

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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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In 2024, the infant mortality rate declined to 25.9 per 1,000 live births, which is the second lowest rate in Central Africa.

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**Who acts:** 1,000 live births · **What happens:** decline, be · **To what, where:** infant mortality rate, second lowest rate, Central Africa, 2024

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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 (1,000 live births), 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:322
# text = In 2024, the infant mortality rate declined to 25.9 per 1,000 live births, which is the second lowest rate in Central Africa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	25.9	25.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	per	per	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 infant mortality rate *not said here* |  |  |  | to 25.9; per 1,000 live births | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 1,000 live births | the second lowest rate |  | Central Africa |  |  | 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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