Republic of the Congo, sentence 39
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During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, Brazzaville functioned as the symbolic capital of Free France between 1940 and 1943.
What happens: function, occupy · To what, where: Nazi occupation, France
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 occupation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 occupation | det |
| 3 | Nazi | Nazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occupation | compound |
| 4 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 France | case |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occupation | nmod |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 8 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | compound |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occupation | nmod |
| 10 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 9 War | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brazzaville | punct |
| 12 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | conj |
| 13 | functioned | function | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 occupation | acl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 capital | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 capital | det |
| 16 | symbolic | symbolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 capital | amod |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 functioned | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 France | case |
| 19 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 France | amod |
| 20 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | nmod |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 1940 | case |
| 22 | 1940 | 1940 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 functioned | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 1943 | cc |
| 24 | 1943 | 1943 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1940 | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occupation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | function | participle | the Nazi occupation of France during World War and Brazzaville not said here | as the symbolic capital of Free France; between 1940 | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | occupy | France | during World War and Brazzaville | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient during=obl |
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