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# Gabon, sentence 90

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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 June 2010, a partial legislative by-election was held, marking the emergence of the Union Nationale (UN) coalition, primarily comprising defectors from the ruling PDG party following Omar Bongo's death.

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**Who acts:** ruling PDG party, Union Nationale, Omar · **What happens:** hold, mark, comprise, follow, emerge, die · **To what, where:** partial legislative election, coalition, defectors, ruling PDG party, death

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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 (ruling PDG party, Union Nationale, Omar), 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:90
# text = In June 2010, a partial legislative by-election was held, marking the emergence of the Union Nationale (UN) coalition, primarily comprising defectors from the ruling PDG party following Omar Bongo's death.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Nationale	Nationale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
28	defectors	defector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	PDG	PDG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Bongo	Bongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
38	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a partial legislative election |  |  | june |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund |  | the emergence of the Union Nationale's coalition |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent coalition=Destination |
| 3 | **comprise** | gerund |  | defectors |  | the ruling PDG party |  | primarily *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme defector=Pivot |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | the ruling PDG party *not said here* | Omar's death |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 5 | **emerge** |  | the Union Nationale |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | Omar |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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