Republic of the Congo, sentence 17
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 kingdom's name derived from its people, the Bakongo, an endonym said to mean "hunters" (mukongo, nkongo).
Who acts: name, endonym, kingdom · What happens: derive, say, mean, name · To what, where: hunters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, endonym, kingdom), 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 kingdom | det |
| 2 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 kingdom | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derived | nsubj |
| 5 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod:poss |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 derived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bakongo | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bakongo | det |
| 11 | Bakongo | Bakongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 endonym | det |
| 14 | endonym | endonym | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 derived | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 mean | mark |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunters | punct |
| 19 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mean | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunters | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 mukongo | punct |
| 22 | mukongo | mukongo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunters | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nkongo | punct |
| 24 | nkongo | nkongo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mukongo | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 mukongo | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | past | the kingdom's name | from name's people the Bakongo | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from people=Material | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a endonym | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | to-infinitive | a endonym not said here | hunters | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | name | the kingdom | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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