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title: Following the fall in oil prices in the mid-1980s, the 1994 devaluat… — Libreville · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the fall in oil prices in the mid-1980s, the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc, and the progressive depletion of older fields, successive Gabonese governments have pursued policies aimed at diversifying the urban economy away from oil-rent dependence. Who acts: CFA franc. A sentence of Wik
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# Libreville, sentence 74

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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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Following the fall in oil prices in the mid-1980s, the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc, and the progressive depletion of older fields, successive Gabonese governments have pursued policies aimed at diversifying the urban economy away from oil-rent dependence.

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**Who acts:** CFA franc · **What happens:** follow, pursue, aim, diversify, devaluate, deplete · **To what, where:** progressive depletion, policies, urban economy, older fields

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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 (CFA franc), 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:74
# text = Following the fall in oil prices in the mid-1980s, the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc, and the progressive depletion of older fields, successive Gabonese governments have pursued policies aimed at diversifying the urban economy away from oil-rent dependence.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mid-1980s	mid-1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	devaluation	devaluation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	CFA	CFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	franc	franc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	progressive	progressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	depletion	depletion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Gabonese	gabonese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	diversifying	diversify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | present · perfect · passive |  | the progressive depletion of older fields |  |  |  | successive Gabonese governments *nsubj*; policies *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **aim** | participle |  | policies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **diversify** | gerund |  | the urban economy |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
| 6 | **devaluate** |  | the CFA franc |  |  |  |  |  | nom devaluation «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **deplete** |  |  | older fields |  |  |  |  | nom depletion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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