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title: There were an estimated 2,400 deaths from AIDS in 2009 – down from 3… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: There were an estimated 2,400 deaths from AIDS in 2009 – down from 3,000 deaths in 2003. Who acts: estimated 2,400 deaths. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 326

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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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There were an estimated 2,400 deaths from AIDS in 2009 – down from 3,000 deaths in 2003.

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**Who acts:** estimated 2,400 deaths · **What happens:** be, estimate · **To what, where:** 2009

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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 (estimated 2,400 deaths), 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:326
# text = There were an estimated 2,400 deaths from AIDS in 2009 – down from 3,000 deaths in 2003.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	2,400	2,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	AIDS	aids	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
11	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a estimated 2,400 deaths from AIDS |  |  | 2009; there |  | 3,000 deaths in 2003 *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2009=Location |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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