--- title: In August 2023, following the announcement that Ali Bongo had won a… — Gabon · tree and pragmatics description: In August 2023, following the announcement that Ali Bongo had won a third term in the general election, military officers announced that they had taken power in a coup d'état and cancelled the election results. Who acts: August, Ali, military officers, officers. 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In August 2023, following the announcement that Ali Bongo had won a third term in the general election, military officers announced that they had taken power in a coup d'état and cancelled the election results. **Who acts:** August, Ali, military officers, officers · **What happens:** follow, win, announce, take, cancel · **To what, where:** announcement, third term, general election, power, coup d'état, election results · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (August, Ali, military officers, officers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:95 # text = In August 2023, following the announcement that Ali Bongo had won a third term in the general election, military officers announced that they had taken power in a coup d'état and cancelled the election results. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 announcement announcement NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 Bongo Bongo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 28 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 coup coup NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 d'état d'état NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 cancelled cancel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | August 2023 *not said here* | the announcement | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Theme | | 2 | **win** | past · perfect | Ali | a third term | | the general election | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | military officers | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** | past · perfect | officers *= officer* | power | | a coup d'état | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in d'état=Location | | 5 | **cancel** | past | officers *= officer* *not said here* | the election results | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/96/) - ↑ back to [Gabon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gabon/)