Republic of the Congo, sentence 16

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.

It is named after the Congo River whose name is derived from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom that occupied its mouth around the time the Portuguese first arrived in 1483 or 1484.

Who acts: Bantu kingdom, Portuguese · What happens: name, derive, occupy, arrive · To what, where: rendition, name, Kongo, mouth, time, 1483

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 (Bantu kingdom, Portuguese), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 River	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 River	det
6	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 River	compound
7	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 derived	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 derived	aux:pass
11	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 River	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 Kongo	case
13	Kongo	Kongo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 derived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kingdom	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kingdom	det
16	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 kingdom	compound
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Kongo	appos
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 occupied	nsubj
19	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kingdom	acl:relcl
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouth	nmod:poss
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occupied	obj
22	around	around	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occupied	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Portuguese	det
26	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 arrived	nsubj
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 arrived	advmod
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 time	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1483	case
30	1483	1483	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 arrived	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 1484	cc
32	1484	1484	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 1483	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		rendition		after the Congo River		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	derive	present · passive		name	Kongo			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from kongo=Material
3	occupy	past	a Bantu kingdom	rendition's mouth		time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouth=Experiencer
4	arrive	past	the Portuguese	the time not said here	1483		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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