Republic of the Congo, sentence 22

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 Bakongo, a Bantu ethnic group that occupied parts of what later became Angola, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those countries.

Who acts: Bantu ethnic group, Bakongo · What happens: occupy, become, form · To what, where: parts, basis

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 (Bantu ethnic group, Bakongo), 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 Bakongo	det
2	Bakongo	Bakongo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 formed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 group	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
5	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 group	compound
6	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 group	amod
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bakongo	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 occupied	nsubj
9	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 group	acl:relcl
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 occupied	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 parts	nmod
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 became	advmod
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	Angola	Angola	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Gabon	punct
17	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Angola	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Republic	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Republic	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Republic	det
21	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	_	22 Republic	compound
22	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bakongo	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Congo	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Congo	det
25	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Republic	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bakongo	punct
27	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 basis	det
29	basis	basis	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 formed	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 affinities	case
31	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 affinities	amod
32	affinities	affinity	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 formed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rivalries	cc
34	rivalries	rivalry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 affinities	conj
35	among	among	ADP	_	37 countries	case
36	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 countries	det
37	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 formed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	occupy	past	a Bantu ethnic group	parts		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus part=Experiencer
2	become	past			late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	form	past	the Bakongo	the basis	for ethnic affinities and rivalries; among that countries	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent basis=Result for affinity=Beneficiary

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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