Republic of the Congo, sentence 36
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 French designated Brazzaville as the federal capital.
Who acts: French · What happens: designate · To what, where: Brazzaville
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 (French), 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 | 2 French | det |
| 2 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 designated | nsubj |
| 3 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 designated | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 capital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capital | det |
| 7 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 capital | amod |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 designated | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 designated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | designate | past | the French | Brazzaville | as the federal capital | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent brazzaville=Theme as capital=Attribute |
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