Republic of the Congo, sentence 40
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The Brazzaville Conference of 1944 heralded a period of reform in French colonial policy.
Who acts: Brazzaville Conference · What happens: herald · To what, where: period
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 (Brazzaville Conference), 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 | 3 Conference | det |
| 2 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Conference | compound |
| 3 | Conference | Conference | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heralded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1944 | case |
| 5 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Conference | nmod |
| 6 | heralded | herald | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 period | det |
| 8 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heralded | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 reform | case |
| 10 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 period | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 policy | case |
| 12 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 policy | amod |
| 13 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 policy | amod |
| 14 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reform | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heralded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herald | past | the Brazzaville Conference of 1944 | a period of reform in French colonial policy | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Theme |
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