Republic of the Congo, sentence 171
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 Kongo are the largest ethnic group and form roughly half of the population.
Who acts: Kongo · What happens: be, form · To what, where: largest ethnic group, half
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 (Kongo), 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 Kongo | det |
| 2 | Kongo | Kongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 group | amod |
| 6 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 group | amod |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 form | cc |
| 9 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | conj |
| 10 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 11 half | advmod |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 form | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 population | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 population | det |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 half | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Kongo | the largest ethnic group | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | form | present | the Kongo not said here | half of the population | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=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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