Republic of the Congo, sentence 61

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.

The bodies of two of these men were later found, mutilated, by the Congo River.

What happens: find, mutilate · To what, where: bodies

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bodies	det
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bodies	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 two	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mutilated	punct
12	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 River	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 River	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 River	det
16	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	compound
17	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mutilated	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the bodies of two of this men				late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	mutilate	participle						by the Congo River	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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