Republic of the Congo, sentence 119

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 opposition who boycotted the referendum said that the government's statistics were false and the vote was a fake one.

Who acts: opposition, statistics, vote · What happens: boycott, say, be · To what, where: referendum, fake one · 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 (opposition, statistics, vote), 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 opposition	det
2	opposition	opposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 boycotted	nsubj
4	boycotted	boycott	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opposition	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 referendum	det
6	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boycotted	obj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 false	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 government	det
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 statistics	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 government	case
12	statistics	statistic	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 false	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 false	cop
14	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 one	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vote	det
17	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 one	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 false	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	boycott	past	the opposition	the referendum		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent referendum=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the opposition			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the government's statistics		false property	tree rules
4	is a	past	the vote	a fake one		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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