Republic of the Congo, sentence 53
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.
Under the 1963 constitution, Massamba-Débat was elected president for a five-year term.
What happens: elect · To what, where: Massamba, 1963 constitution
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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 constitution | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 constitution | det |
| 3 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 constitution | nummod |
| 4 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 elected | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 constitution | punct |
| 6 | Massamba | Massamba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Débat | punct |
| 8 | Débat | Débat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Massamba | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 elected | aux:pass |
| 10 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 elected | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 term | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 term | det |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 year | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 five | punct |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 term | compound |
| 17 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 elected | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | past · passive | Massamba | the 1963 constitution | for a year term | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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