Republic of the Congo, sentence 3
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 region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin.
Who acts: Bantu, trade links · What happens: dominate, speak, build, lead · To what, where: region, tribes, trade links, River basin · 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: who acts (Bantu, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 region | det |
| 2 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dominated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dominated | aux:pass |
| 4 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Bantu | case |
| 6 | Bantu | Bantu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dominated | obl:agent |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 speaking | punct |
| 8 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dominated | advcl |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 speaking | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 least | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 3,000 | advmod |
| 12 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 speaking | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 built | nsubj |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 speaking | conj |
| 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 | _ | 25 basin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 basin | det |
| 23 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 River | compound |
| 24 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 basin | compound |
| 25 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leading | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | past · passive | Bantu | the region | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Bantu not said here | tribes | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | build | past | trade links | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Product | |||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | trade links not said here | the River 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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