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title: The country finished 11th out of the African countries measured by t… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: The country finished 11th out of the African countries measured by the Ibrahim Index of African Governance in 2010, a comprehensive analysis of the standards of governance in Africa. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 146

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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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The country finished 11th out of the African countries measured by the Ibrahim Index of African Governance in 2010, a comprehensive analysis of the standards of governance in Africa.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** finish, measure, analyze · **To what, where:** 11th, African countries, 2010, standards

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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: who acts (country), 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:146
# text = The country finished 11th out of the African countries measured by the Ibrahim Index of African Governance in 2010, a comprehensive analysis of the standards of governance in Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	11th	11th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Index	Index	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Governance	Governance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	comprehensive	comprehensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	analysis	analysis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | the country | 11th |  | the African countries |  | a comprehensive analysis of the standards of governance in Africa *obl* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality 11th=Eventuality |
| 2 | **measure** | participle |  | the African countries *not said here* |  | 2010 |  | by the Ibrahim Index of African Governance | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **analyze** |  |  | the standards of governance in Africa |  |  |  |  | nom analysis «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, «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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