Republic of the Congo, sentence 124
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.
Some Pygmies belong from birth to Bantus in a relationship some refer to as slavery.
Who acts: Pygmies, some · What happens: belong, refer · To what, where: birth, relationship
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 (Pygmies, some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Pygmies | det |
| 2 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belong | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Bantus | case |
| 7 | Bantus | Bantus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 birth | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 relationship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 relationship | det |
| 10 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refer | obl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 refer | nsubj |
| 12 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 belong | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 slavery | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 slavery | case |
| 15 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | some Pygmies | birth to Bantus | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refer | present | some | a relationship | to slavery | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to slavery=Co-Theme |
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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