Republic of the Congo, sentence 162

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.

70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the cities or villages lining the 534 km, railway which connects the two cities.

Who acts: cities, railway · What happens: live, line, connect · To what, where: urban areas, 534 km, two cities

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 (cities, railway), 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	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 %	nummod
2	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	7 lives	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 population	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 population	nmod:poss
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 population	amod
6	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 %	nmod
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 areas	case
9	urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 areas	amod
10	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lives	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 namely	punct
12	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Brazzaville	amod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Brazzaville	case
14	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 areas	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Pointe	punct
16	Pointe	Pointe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Brazzaville	appos
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Noire	punct
18	Noire	Noire	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Brazzaville	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 one	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Brazzaville	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cities	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cities	det
24	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 villages	cc
26	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cities	conj
27	lining	line	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 cities	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 km	det
29	534	534	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 km	nummod
30	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lining	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 railway	punct
32	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 km	appos
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 connects	nsubj
34	connects	connect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 railway	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cities	det
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 cities	nummod
37	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 connects	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present			urban areas in namely Brazzaville and Noire	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location
2	line	gerund	the cities or villages not said here	the 534 km		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Destination
3	connect	present	railway	the two cities		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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.

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