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title: Government strategy has increasingly sought to position the Librevil… — Libreville · tree and pragmatics
description: Government strategy has increasingly sought to position the Libreville region as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer, drawing on Akanda National Park to the north and Pongara National Park across the Gabon Estuary, and on cruise-ship visits calling at the deep-water quays of Owendo. Who acts: shi
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# Libreville, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Libreville»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreville), 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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Government strategy has increasingly sought to position the Libreville region as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer, drawing on Akanda National Park to the north and Pongara National Park across the Gabon Estuary, and on cruise-ship visits calling at the deep-water quays of Owendo.

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**Who acts:** ship visits, Gabon · **What happens:** seek, draw, call, offer · **To what, where:** Government strategy, ship visits, Akanda National Park · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libreville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship visits, Gabon), 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:Libreville:144
# text = Government strategy has increasingly sought to position the Libreville region as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer, drawing on Akanda National Park to the north and Pongara National Park across the Gabon Estuary, and on cruise-ship visits calling at the deep-water quays of Owendo.
1	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Libreville	Libreville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	ecotourism	ecotourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Akanda	Akanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	Pongara	Pongara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Estuary	Estuary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	cruise	cruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
43	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	quays	quay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Owendo	Owendo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect · passive |  | Government strategy |  | ship visits |  | as a gateway for Gabon's ecotourism offer; the Libreville region *obl:unmarked*; position *xcomp*; increasingly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on visit=Location |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  |  |  | Akanda National Park |  | to the north and Pongara National Park; across the Gabon Estuary | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | ship visits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the water quays of Owendo | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at quay=Stimulus |
| 4 | **offer** |  | Gabon |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: 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, «Libreville», 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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