Republic of the Congo, sentence 100

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 southwest is a coastal plain for which the primary drainage is the Kouilou-Niari River; the interior of the country consists of a central plateau between 2 basins to the south and north.

Who acts: southwest, primary drainage, Kouilou Niari River · What happens: be, consist · To what, where: coastal plain, Kouilou Niari River

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 (southwest, primary drainage, Kouilou Niari River), 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 southwest	det
2	southwest	southwest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plain	det
5	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plain	amod
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 consists	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drainage	det
10	primary	primary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 drainage	amod
11	drainage	drainage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 River	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 River	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 River	det
14	Kouilou	Kouilou	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Kouilou	punct
16	Niari	Niari	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	compound
17	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 consists	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 interior	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 interior	det
20	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 River	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 interior	nmod
24	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 plateau	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plateau	det
27	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plateau	amod
28	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consists	obl
29	between	between	ADP	_	31 basins	case
30	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 basins	nummod
31	basins	basin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 plateau	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 south	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 south	det
34	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consists	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 north	cc
36	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 south	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the southwest	a coastal plain		tree rules
2	is a	present	the primary drainage	the Kouilou Niari River		tree rules
3	consist	present	the Kouilou Niari River		for a coastal plain; of a central plateau between 2 basins; to the south and north	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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