Republic of the Congo, sentence 47
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.
By the time the Congo became independent in August 1960, Opangault, the former opponent of Youlou, agreed to serve under him.
Who acts: Congo · What happens: become, agree, serve
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Congo | det |
| 5 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 August | case |
| 9 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 10 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 August | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Opangault | punct |
| 12 | Opangault | Opangault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 August | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opponent | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 opponent | det |
| 15 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 opponent | amod |
| 16 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Opangault | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Youlou | case |
| 18 | Youlou | Youlou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 opponent | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 serve | mark |
| 22 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 agreed | xcomp |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 serve | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Congo | august; time | independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the Congo not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Congo not said here | under Congo | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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