Republic of the Congo, sentence 18
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.
During the period when France colonised it, it was known as the French Congo or Middle Congo.
Who acts: France · What happens: colonis, know · To what, where: name
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 (France), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 colonised | advmod |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colonised | nsubj |
| 6 | colonised | colonis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 period | acl:relcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 colonised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux:pass |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 Congo | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Congo | det |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Congo | amod |
| 15 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 Congo | cc |
| 17 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Congo | compound |
| 18 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Congo | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colonis | past | France | name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | name | during the period | as the French Congo or Middle Congo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as congo=Attribute |
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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