Republic of the Congo, sentence 34
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.
This Congo Colony became known first as French Congo, then as Middle Congo in 1903.
What happens: know · To what, where: Congo
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Congo | det |
| 2 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Congo | flat |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 known | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Congo | case |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Congo | amod |
| 9 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Congo | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Congo | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Congo | case |
| 13 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Congo | compound |
| 14 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1903 | case |
| 16 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Congo | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | this Congo | as French Congo; as Middle Congo in 1903; first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as congo=Attribute |
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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