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title: Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon co… — Libreville · tree and pragmatics
description: Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon colony between 1888 and 1904, when the capital moved to Brazzaville. Who acts: Libreville, capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libreville» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Libreville, sentence 16

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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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Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon colony between 1888 and 1904, when the capital moved to Brazzaville.

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**Who acts:** Libreville, capital · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** administrative capital, Brazzaville

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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 (Libreville, capital), 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:16
# text = Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon colony between 1888 and 1904, when the capital moved to Brazzaville.
1	Libreville	Libreville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	1904	1904	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Libreville | the administrative capital |  |  |  | of France's Gabon colony between 1888 | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | the capital |  | Brazzaville |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brazzaville=Result |

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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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