Republic of the Congo, sentence 142
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.
Before June 1997, Congo and the United States ratified a bilateral investment treaty designed to facilitate and protect foreign investment.
Who acts: United States · What happens: ratify, design, facilitate, protect · To what, where: bilateral investment treaty, foreign investment
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 (United States), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ratified | obl |
| 3 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Congo | punct |
| 5 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 June | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 States | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 States | det |
| 8 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 States | amod |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 ratified | nsubj |
| 10 | ratified | ratify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 treaty | det |
| 12 | bilateral | bilateral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 treaty | amod |
| 13 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treaty | compound |
| 14 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ratified | obj |
| 15 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 treaty | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 facilitate | mark |
| 17 | facilitate | facilitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 designed | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 protect | cc |
| 19 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 facilitate | conj |
| 20 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 investment | amod |
| 21 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 protect | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ratified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ratify | past | the United States | a bilateral investment treaty | june | tree rules | |||
| 2 | design | participle | a bilateral investment treaty not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | facilitate | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | protect | infinitive | foreign investment | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=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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