Republic of the Congo, sentence 30
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 Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo in 1484.
Who acts: Portuguese explorer · What happens: reach · To what, where: mouth, 1484
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 (Portuguese explorer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 explorer | det |
| 2 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 explorer | amod |
| 3 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | Diogo | Diogo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explorer | appos |
| 5 | Cão | Cão | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Diogo | flat |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Congo | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Congo | det |
| 11 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1484 | case |
| 13 | 1484 | 1484 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reached | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the Portuguese explorer | the mouth of the Congo | 1484 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
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