Republic of the Congo, sentence 164
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 the 1997 war, about 9,000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French; a fraction of this number remains.
Who acts: 9,000 Europeans, most, fraction · What happens: live, be, remain · To what, where: Congo
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 (9,000 Europeans, most, fraction), 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 | _ | 4 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 war | nummod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 9,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 9,000 | 9,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Europeans | nummod |
| 8 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 non-Africans | cc |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 non-Africans | amod |
| 11 | non-Africans | non-african | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Europeans | conj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Congo | case |
| 14 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 French | punct |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 French | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 French | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 French | cop |
| 20 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 remains | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fraction | det |
| 23 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remains | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 number | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fraction | nmod |
| 27 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | 9,000 Europeans and other non-Africans | Congo | before the 1997 war | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in congo=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | most | french property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | a fraction of this number | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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