Republic of the Congo, sentence 33

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 area north of the Congo River came under French sovereignty in 1880 as a result of Pierre de Brazza's treaty with Tio King Iloo I. After the death of Iloo, his widow Queen Ngalifourou upheld the terms of the treaty and became an ally to the colonizers.

Who acts: area, widow, Iloo · What happens: come, uphold, become, result, die, term · To what, where: French sovereignty, terms, ally, Pierre, treaty

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 (area, widow, Iloo), 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 area	det
2	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
3	north	north	ADV	_	2 area	advmod
4	of	of	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	2 area	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 sovereignty	case
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sovereignty	amod
11	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1880	case
13	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 came	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 result	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 result	det
16	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Pierre	case
18	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 result	nmod
19	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Pierre	flat
20	Brazza	Brazza	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 treaty	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Brazza	case
22	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Pierre	appos
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 I.	case
24	Tio	Tio	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 King	compound
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Iloo	nmod:desc
26	Iloo	Iloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 I.	compound
27	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 treaty	nmod
28	After	after	ADP	_	30 death	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 death	det
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 upheld	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Iloo	case
32	Iloo	Iloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 death	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 widow	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 widow	nmod:poss
35	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 upheld	nsubj
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 widow	appos
37	Ngalifourou	Ngalifourou	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Queen	flat
38	upheld	uphold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 terms	det
40	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 upheld	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 treaty	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 treaty	det
43	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 terms	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 became	cc
45	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 upheld	conj
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 ally	det
47	ally	ally	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 became	xcomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 colonizers	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 colonizers	det
50	colonizers	colonizer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 became	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the area of the Congo River		French sovereignty		in 1880; as a result of Pierre	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sovereignty=Location
2	uphold	past	Iloo's widow	the terms of the treaty		after the death of Iloo		tree rules
3	become	past	Iloo's widow not said here	a ally			to the colonizers	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	result			Pierre				nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	die		Iloo					nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	term			the treaty				nom term «communication 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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