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title: On 12 February 2009, a coup d'état was attempted to overthrow Presid… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: On 12 February 2009, a coup d'état was attempted to overthrow President Fradique de Menezes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«São Tomé and Príncipe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Tomé_and_Príncipe), 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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On 12 February 2009, a coup d'état was attempted to overthrow President Fradique de Menezes.

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**What happens:** attempt, overthrow · **To what, where:** coup d'état, Fradique Menezes

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:São_Tomé_and_Príncipe:106
# text = On 12 February 2009, a coup d'état was attempted to overthrow President Fradique de Menezes.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	d'état	d'état	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	overthrow	overthrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Fradique	Fradique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Menezes	menez	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past · passive |  | a coup d'état |  |  | february |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overthrow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Fradique Menezes |  |  |  |  | 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, «São Tomé and Príncipe», 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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