Republic of the Congo, sentence 45
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.
Antagonism between the Mbochis (who favored Jacques Opangault) and the Laris and Kongos (who favored Fulbert Youlou, the first black mayor elected in French Equatorial Africa) resulted in a series of riots in Brazzaville in February 1959, which the French Army subdued.
Who acts: Mbochis, Antagonism, Fulbert, French Army · What happens: favor, elect, result, subdue · To what, where: Jacques, first black mayor, French Equatorial Africa, series, 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 (Mbochis, Antagonism, Fulbert, French Army), 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 | Antagonism | Antagonism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 favored | nsubj |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 Mbochis | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mbochis | det |
| 4 | Mbochis | Mbochis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antagonism | nmod |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 favored | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 favored | nsubj |
| 7 | favored | favor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Mbochis | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Jacques | Jacques | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 favored | obj |
| 9 | Opangault | Opangault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jacques | flat |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jacques | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Laris | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Laris | det |
| 13 | Laris | Laris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antagonism | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Kongos | cc |
| 15 | Kongos | Kongos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antagonism | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 favored | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 favored | nsubj |
| 18 | favored | favor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Fulbert | Fulbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 resulted | nsubj |
| 20 | Youlou | Youlou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fulbert | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mayor | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mayor | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 mayor | amod |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mayor | amod |
| 25 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Fulbert | appos |
| 26 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mayor | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Africa | case |
| 28 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Africa | compound |
| 29 | Equatorial | Equatorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Africa | compound |
| 30 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 elected | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 elected | punct |
| 32 | resulted | result | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 favored | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 series | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 series | det |
| 35 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 resulted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 riots | case |
| 37 | riots | riot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 series | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Brazzaville | case |
| 39 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 riots | nmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 February | case |
| 41 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Brazzaville | nmod |
| 42 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 subdued | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 subdued | obj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Army | det |
| 46 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Army | amod |
| 47 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 subdued | nsubj |
| 48 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 Brazzaville | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 favored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor | past | the Mbochis | Jacques | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jacques=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | favor | past | Antagonism between the Mbochis and the Laris and Kongos | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | elect | participle | the first black mayor not said here | French Equatorial Africa | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | result | past | Fulbert | a series of riots in Brazzaville in February 1959 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in series=Location | ||||
| 5 | subdue | past | the French Army | Brazzaville in February 1959 | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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