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title: Some periodicals actively criticize the government, and foreign publ… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: Some periodicals actively criticize the government, and foreign publications are available. Who acts: periodicals, foreign publications. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 371

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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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Some periodicals actively criticize the government, and foreign publications are available.

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**Who acts:** periodicals, foreign publications · **What happens:** criticize, be · **To what, where:** government

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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 (periodicals, foreign publications), 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:371
# text = Some periodicals actively criticize the government, and foreign publications are available.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	periodicals	periodical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	actively	actively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	criticize	criticize	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	publications	publication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticize** | present | some periodicals | the government |  |  |  | actively *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | foreign publications |  |  |  |  | available *property* | 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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