Republic of the Congo, sentence 21

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.

Bantu-speaking peoples, who founded tribes during the Bantu expansions, mostly displaced and absorbed the earlier inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500 BC.

What happens: speak, found, displace, absorb · To what, where: speaking peoples, earlier inhabitants · 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: 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	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speaking	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Bantu	punct
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 peoples	amod
4	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 founded	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 founded	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 founded	nsubj
7	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 founded	obj
9	during	during	ADP	_	12 expansions	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 expansions	det
11	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 expansions	compound
12	expansions	expansion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 founded	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 displaced	punct
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	15 displaced	advmod
15	displaced	displace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 founded	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 absorbed	cc
17	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 displaced	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 inhabitants	det
19	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 inhabitants	amod
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 absorbed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 region	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 region	det
23	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inhabitants	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 people	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
26	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 inhabitants	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 1500	punct
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 1500	advmod
30	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 people	appos
31	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 1500	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 founded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	found	past	speaking peoples	during the Bantu expansions		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Patient
3	displace	past			mostly property	tree rules
4	absorb	past	the earlier inhabitants of the region			vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal inhabitant=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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