Republic of the Congo, sentence 25
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.
South of these was Mpemba which stretched from modern-day Angola to the Congo River.
Who acts: South · What happens: be, stretch · To what, where: Congo River
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 (South), 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Mpemba | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Mpemba | det |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mpemba | cop |
| 5 | Mpemba | Mpemba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 South | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stretched | nsubj |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 modern | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 12 | Angola | Angola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 day | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 River | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 River | det |
| 15 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 River | compound |
| 16 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of this Mpemba | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stretch | past | South | the Congo River | day | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Location |
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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