Republic of the Congo, sentence 120
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 election raised questions and was accompanied by civil unrest and police shootings of protesters; at least 18 people were killed by security forces during opposition rallies leading up to the referendum held in October.
Who acts: election, civil unrest, security forces, opposition rallies · What happens: raise, accompany, kill, lead up, hold, shoot · To what, where: questions, 18 people, referendum, protesters
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 (election, civil unrest, security forces, opposition rallies), 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 election | det |
| 2 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 accompanied | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 7 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 unrest | case |
| 9 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 unrest | amod |
| 10 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accompanied | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shootings | cc |
| 12 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shootings | compound |
| 13 | shootings | shooting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 unrest | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 protesters | case |
| 15 | protesters | protester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shootings | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 18 | nmod |
| 19 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 people | nummod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux:pass |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 forces | case |
| 24 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forces | compound |
| 25 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 killed | obl |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 28 rallies | case |
| 27 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rallies | compound |
| 28 | rallies | rally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 killed | obl |
| 29 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 rallies | acl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 leading | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 referendum | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 referendum | det |
| 33 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leading | obl |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 referendum | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 October | case |
| 36 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the election | questions | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accompany | past · passive | civil unrest and police shootings of protesters | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | security forces | 18 people | during opposition rallies | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead up | gerund | opposition rallies not said here | to the referendum | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to referendum=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hold | participle | the referendum not said here | october | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shoot | protesters | nom shooting «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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