Republic of the Congo, sentence 156
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.
Congo–Ocean Railway was built by forced laborers during the 1930s.
Who acts: forced laborers · What happens: build, force · To what, where: Congo Ocean Railway
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 (forced laborers), 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 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Railway | compound |
| 2 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Congo | punct |
| 3 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Railway | compound |
| 4 | Railway | Railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 laborers | case |
| 8 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 laborers | amod |
| 9 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | obl |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 1930s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1930s | det |
| 12 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 built | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | forced laborers | Congo Ocean Railway | during the 1930s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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