Republic of the Congo, sentence 28
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.
Some Bantu kingdoms—including those of the Kongo, the Tio, and Loango—built trade links leading into the Congo Basin.
Who acts: Bantu kingdoms, trade links · What happens: build, lead · To what, where: trade links, Congo Basin
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 kingdoms, trade links), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 kingdoms | det |
| 2 | Bantu | Bantu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdoms | compound |
| 3 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 built | nsubj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
| 5 | including | including | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 kingdoms | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kongo | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kongo | det |
| 9 | Kongo | Kongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 those | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tio | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tio | det |
| 12 | Tio | Tio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kongo | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Loango | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Loango | cc |
| 15 | Loango | Loango | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kongo | conj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 links | compound |
| 19 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 built | obj |
| 20 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 links | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 Basin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Basin | det |
| 23 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Basin | compound |
| 24 | Basin | Basin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leading | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | some Bantu kingdoms including those | trade links | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset link=Product | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | trade links not said here | the Congo Basin | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into basin=Destination |
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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