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title: The historic Port of Owendo, located approximately 20 km from the ci… — Libreville · tree and pragmatics
description: The historic Port of Owendo, located approximately 20 km from the city centre, handles containerised, general cargo and bulk traffic and has been the country's principal commercial harbour since the 1970s. Who acts: historic Port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libreville» with its dependency tree and p
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# Libreville, sentence 80

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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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The historic Port of Owendo, located approximately 20 km from the city centre, handles containerised, general cargo and bulk traffic and has been the country's principal commercial harbour since the 1970s.

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**Who acts:** historic Port · **What happens:** locate, containeris, be · **To what, where:** 20 km, city centre, handles, principal commercial harbour

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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 (historic Port), 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:80
# text = The historic Port of Owendo, located approximately 20 km from the city centre, handles containerised, general cargo and bulk traffic and has been the country's principal commercial harbour since the 1970s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Owendo	Owendo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	nsubj	_	_
8	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	handles	handle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	containerised	containeris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | 20 km |  | the city centre |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **containeris** | participle |  | handles  general cargo and bulk traffic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | participle | the historic Port of Owendo | the country's principal commercial harbour |  |  | since the 1970s | the country *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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