Republic of the Congo, sentence 153

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 Congolese government signed an agreement in 2009 to lease 200,000 hectares of land to South African farmers to reduce its dependence on imports.

Who acts: Congolese government · What happens: sign, lease, reduce · To what, where: agreement, 2009, 200,000 hectares, South African farmers, dependence, imports

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 government), 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	3 government	det
2	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 government	amod
3	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signed	nsubj
4	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 agreement	det
6	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2009	case
8	2009	2009	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 signed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lease	mark
10	lease	lease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 signed	advcl
11	200,000	200000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 hectares	nummod
12	hectares	hectare	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lease	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hectares	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 farmers	case
16	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 farmers	compound
17	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 farmers	amod
18	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lease	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 reduce	mark
20	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lease	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dependence	nmod:poss
22	dependence	dependence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reduce	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 imports	case
24	imports	import	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reduce	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sign	past	the Congolese government	a agreement		2009	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme in 2009=Destination
2	lease	to-infinitive	the Congolese government not said here	200,000 hectares of land	South African farmers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hectare=Theme to farmer=Recipient
3	reduce	to-infinitive	the Congolese government not said here	land's dependence		imports	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dependence=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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