Republic of the Congo, sentence 117
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.
On 25 October, the government held a referendum on allowing Sassou Nguesso to run in the next election.
Who acts: government, referendum, Sassou · What happens: hold, allow, run · To what, where: referendum, 25, Sassou, next election
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 (government, referendum, Sassou), 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 25 | case |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 held | obl |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 referendum | det |
| 9 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obj |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 allowing | mark |
| 11 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 referendum | acl |
| 12 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 allowing | obj |
| 13 | Nguesso | Nguesso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sassou | flat |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowing | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 election | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 election | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 election | amod |
| 19 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the government | a referendum | 25 October | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme on 25=Location | |||
| 2 | allow | gerund | a referendum not said here | Sassou | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer sassou=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sassou not said here | the next election | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in election=Trajectory |
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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