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title: For long-term economic growth, the government is trying to stimulate… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: For long-term economic growth, the government is trying to stimulate various sectors of the economy, diversify the economy, cut government spending and encourage private sector and foreign investment. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree an
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 234

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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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For long-term economic growth, the government is trying to stimulate various sectors of the economy, diversify the economy, cut government spending and encourage private sector and foreign investment.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** try, stimulate, diversify, encourage · **To what, where:** various sectors, economy, private sector

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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 (government), 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:234
# text = For long-term economic growth, the government is trying to stimulate various sectors of the economy, diversify the economy, cut government spending and encourage private sector and foreign investment.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stimulate	stimulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	diversify	diversify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	encourage	encourage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · progressive | the government |  |  |  |  | for term economic growth | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stimulate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | various sectors of the economy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sector=Experiencer |
| 3 | **diversify** | infinitive | the government *not said here* | the economy and cut government spending |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
| 4 | **encourage** | infinitive | the government *not said here* | private sector and foreign investment |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sector=Theme |

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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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