Republic of the Congo, sentence 127
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.
This law is "the first" of its kind in Africa.
Who acts: law · What happens: be
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 (law), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kind | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this law | of way's kind in Africa; first property | 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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