Republic of the Congo, sentence 6

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.

In the late 19th century France colonised the region and incorporated it into French Equatorial Africa.

Who acts: France · What happens: colonis, incorporate · To what, where: region

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 (France), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 century	det
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
4	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	5 century	amod
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colonised	obl
6	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 colonised	nsubj
7	colonised	colonis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 region	det
9	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colonised	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 incorporated	cc
11	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 colonised	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 incorporated	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 Africa	case
14	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Africa	compound
15	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Africa	compound
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 incorporated	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 colonised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colonis	past	France	the region			century		tree rules
2	incorporate	past	France not said here	region				into French Equatorial Africa	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into africa=Co-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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