Republic of the Congo, sentence 1

From Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

Who acts: Republic · What happens: know, be, locate · To what, where: Republic, country, western coast

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Republic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Republic	det
2	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 country	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Congo	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Congo	det
5	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Republic	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 known	advmod
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Republic	acl:relcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 Brazzaville	case
10	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brazzaville	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Congo	punct
12	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Republic	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Republic	det
15	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Republic	compound
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brazzaville	appos
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 Congo	cc
18	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 Congo	advmod
19	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brazzaville	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Republic	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 country	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 country	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 coast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 coast	det
27	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 coast	amod
28	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 located	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Africa	case
30	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Africa	flat
31	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 coast	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 west	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 west	det
34	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 located	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 River	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 River	det
37	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 River	compound
38	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 west	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 country	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	participle		the Republic of the Congo not said here		as Congo Brazzaville or Congo	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as brazzaville=Attribute
2	is a	present	the Republic of the Congo	a country			tree rules
3	locate	participle		a country not said here	the western coast of Central Africa	to the west of the Congo River	tree rules

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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