Republic of the Congo, sentence 41

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.

Congo "benefited" from the postwar expansion of colonial administrative and infrastructure spending as a result of its central geographic location within AEF and the federal capital at Brazzaville.

Who acts: Congo · What happens: benefit, expand, result · To what, where: postwar expansion, colonial administrative spending, central geographic location

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 (Congo), 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	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 benefited	nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 benefited	punct
3	benefited	benefit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 benefited	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 expansion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 expansion	det
7	postwar	postwar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 expansion	amod
8	expansion	expansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 benefited	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 spending	case
10	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spending	amod
11	administrative	administrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spending	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 infrastructure	cc
13	infrastructure	infrastructure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 administrative	conj
14	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expansion	nmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 result	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 result	det
17	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spending	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 location	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 location	nmod:poss
20	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 location	amod
21	geographic	geographic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 location	amod
22	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 result	nmod
23	within	within	ADP	_	24 AEF	case
24	AEF	AEF	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 location	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 capital	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 capital	det
27	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 capital	amod
28	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spending	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 Brazzaville	case
30	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spending	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 benefited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	benefit in a quote	past	Congo		the postwar expansion of colonial administrative spending as a result of result's central geographic location within AEF at Brazzaville and the federal capital	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary from expansion=Causer
2	expand			colonial administrative spending as a result of result's central geographic location within AEF at Brazzaville and the federal capital		nom expansion «act transitive»: of=patient
3	result			result's central geographic location within AEF		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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