Republic of the Congo, sentence 35

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.

In 1908, France organized French Equatorial Africa (AEF), comprising the Middle Congo, Gabon, Chad, and Oubangui-Chari (which later became the Central African Republic).

Who acts: France, Oubangui Chari · What happens: organize, comprise, become · To what, where: French Equatorial Africa, 1908, Middle 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: who acts (France, Oubangui Chari), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1908	case
2	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 organized	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1908	punct
4	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 organized	nsubj
5	organized	organize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Africa	amod
7	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Africa	compound
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 organized	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 AEF	punct
10	AEF	AEF	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Africa	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 AEF	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comprising	punct
13	comprising	comprise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 organized	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Congo	det
15	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Congo	compound
16	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 comprising	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Gabon	punct
18	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Congo	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Chad	punct
20	Chad	Chad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Congo	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
23	Oubangui	Oubangui	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Chari	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Oubangui	punct
25	Chari	Chari	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 became	nsubj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 became	nsubj
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 became	advmod
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 organized	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Republic	det
31	Central	Central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Republic	amod
32	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Republic	compound
33	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 organized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	organize	past	France	French Equatorial Africa	1908		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent africa=Result
2	comprise	gerund	France not said here	the Middle Congo and Gabon and Chad			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme congo=Pivot
3	become	past	Oubangui Chari			late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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