Republic of the Congo, sentence 32

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After centuries as a central hub for transatlantic trade, direct European colonization of the Congo River delta began in the 19th century, subsequently eroding the power of the Bantu societies in the region.

Who acts: centuries · What happens: begin, erode, colonize · To what, where: power, region, River delta

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 (centuries), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 centuries	case
2	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 began	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 hub	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hub	det
5	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hub	amod
6	hub	hub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 centuries	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 trade	case
8	transatlantic	transatlantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trade	amod
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hub	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 colonization	punct
11	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colonization	amod
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colonization	amod
13	colonization	colonization	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trade	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 delta	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 delta	det
16	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	compound
17	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 delta	compound
18	delta	Delta	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 colonization	nmod
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 century	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 century	det
22	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	23 century	amod
23	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eroding	punct
25	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	26 eroding	advmod
26	eroding	erode	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 began	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 power	det
28	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eroding	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 societies	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 societies	det
31	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 societies	compound
32	societies	society	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 power	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 region	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 region	det
35	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eroding	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	centuries as a central hub for transatlantic trade and direct European colonization of the River delta			century		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	erode	gerund	centuries as a central hub for transatlantic trade and direct European colonization of the River delta not said here	the power of the Bantu societies	the region		subsequently property	tree rules
3	colonize			the River delta				nom colonization «act transitive»: of=patient

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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