Republic of the Congo, sentence 27
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.
To its west across the Congo River was a confederation of three small states; Vungu (its leader), Kakongo, and Ngoyo.
What happens: be · To what, where: confederation
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 west | nmod:poss |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confederation | obl |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 River | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 River | det |
| 6 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | compound |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 west | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 confederation | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 confederation | det |
| 10 | confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 states | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 states | nummod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 states | amod |
| 14 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 confederation | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Vungu | punct |
| 16 | Vungu | Vungu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 confederation | appos |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 leader | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 leader | nmod:poss |
| 19 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Vungu | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 leader | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kakongo | punct |
| 22 | Kakongo | Kakongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Vungu | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ngoyo | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Ngoyo | cc |
| 25 | Ngoyo | Ngoyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Vungu | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 confederation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a confederation | to River's west across the Congo River; of three small states | tree rules |
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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