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title: In response to grievances by workers, Bongo negotiated with them on… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics
description: In response to grievances by workers, Bongo negotiated with them on a sector-by-sector basis, making wage concessions. Who acts: Bongo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gabon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gabon, sentence 57

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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 response to grievances by workers, Bongo negotiated with them on a sector-by-sector basis, making wage concessions.

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**Who acts:** Bongo · **What happens:** negotiate, make · **To what, where:** response, wage concessions

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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 (Bongo), 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:57
# text = In response to grievances by workers, Bongo negotiated with them on a sector-by-sector basis, making wage concessions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grievances	grievance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	Bongo	Bongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	negotiated	negotiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	concessions	concession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **negotiate** | participle | Bongo |  |  | response to grievances by workers |  | with workers *= worker*; on a sector basis  sector | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent on basis=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Bongo *not said here* | wage concessions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset concession=Product |

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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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