Republic of the Congo, sentence 37

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.

Economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule in Congo centered on natural resource extraction.

Who acts: Economic development · What happens: center

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 (Economic development), 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	Economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 development	amod
2	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 centered	nsubj
3	during	during	ADP	_	7 years	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 years	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 years	amod
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 development	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rule	case
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rule	amod
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 years	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Congo	case
12	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rule	nmod
13	centered	center	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 extraction	case
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 extraction	amod
16	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 extraction	compound
17	extraction	extraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 centered	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 centered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	center	past	Economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule in Congo					on natural resource extraction	vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on extraction=Topic

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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