Republic of the Congo, sentence 126

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On 30 December 2010, the Congolese parliament adopted a law to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples.

Who acts: Congolese parliament · What happens: adopt, promote, protect · To what, where: law, 30, rights

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 (Congolese parliament), 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 30	case
2	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 adopted	obl
3	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 2010	nmod:unmarked
4	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 30	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 30	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parliament	det
7	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parliament	amod
8	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adopted	nsubj
9	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adopted	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 promote	mark
13	promote	promote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 adopted	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 protect	cc
15	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promote	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rights	det
17	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 protect	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 peoples	case
19	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peoples	amod
20	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rights	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	adopt	past	the Congolese parliament	a law	30 2010 December	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
2	promote	to-infinitive	the Congolese parliament not said here			vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	protect	infinitive	the Congolese parliament not said here	the rights of indigenous peoples		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary

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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