Republic of the Congo, sentence 166
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 government 2025 demographic and health survey (DHS) reported the total fertility rate had declined to 3.5 children born per woman, with a rate of 3.0 in urban areas and 5.3 in rural areas.
Who acts: government · What happens: report, decline, bear · To what, where: total fertility rate, 3.5 children
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 (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 | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | nsubj |
| 3 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 government | flat |
| 4 | demographic | demographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 government | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 survey | cc |
| 6 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 survey | compound |
| 7 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 government | conj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 DHS | punct |
| 9 | DHS | DHS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 survey | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 DHS | punct |
| 11 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rate | det |
| 13 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rate | amod |
| 14 | fertility | fertility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rate | compound |
| 15 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 declined | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 declined | aux |
| 17 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 reported | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 19 | 3.5 | 3.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 20 children | nummod |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 declined | obl |
| 21 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 children | acl |
| 22 | per | per | ADP | _ | 23 woman | case |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 born | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rate | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 rate | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 rate | det |
| 27 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 declined | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 3.0 | case |
| 29 | 3.0 | 3.0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 rate | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 areas | case |
| 31 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 areas | amod |
| 32 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 declined | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 5.3 | cc |
| 34 | 5.3 | 5.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 declined | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 areas | case |
| 36 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 areas | amod |
| 37 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 declined | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | the government and health survey | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | decline | past · perfect · passive | the total fertility rate | to 3.5 children result; with a rate of 3.0; in rural areas; in urban areas | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to child=Result in area=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | 3.5 children not said here | per woman | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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