Republic of the Congo, sentence 116
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On 27 March 2015, Sassou Nguesso announced that his government would hold a referendum on changing the country's 2002 constitution to allow him to run for a third consecutive term in office.
Who acts: Sassou, government, country · What happens: announce, hold, change, allow, run, constitute · To what, where: 27, referendum, 2002 constitution, Sassou · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sassou, government, country), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 27 | case |
| 2 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 announced | obl |
| 3 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2015 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 27 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 27 | punct |
| 6 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | nsubj |
| 7 | Nguesso | Nguesso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sassou | flat |
| 8 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 government | nmod:poss |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 announced | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 referendum | det |
| 15 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 changing | mark |
| 17 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hold | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 constitution | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 country | case |
| 21 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 constitution | nummod |
| 22 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 allow | mark |
| 24 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 changing | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 allow | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 run | mark |
| 27 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 allow | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 term | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 term | det |
| 30 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 term | amod |
| 31 | consecutive | consecutive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 term | amod |
| 32 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 run | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 office | case |
| 34 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 term | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Sassou | 27 | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | would | Sassou's government | a referendum | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | Sassou's government not said here | the country's 2002 constitution | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Patient | ||||
| 4 | allow | to-infinitive | Sassou's government not said here | Sassou | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sassou's government not said here | for a third consecutive term in office | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for term=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | constitute | the country | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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