Republic of the Congo, sentence 63
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.
These troops helped his government survive a coup d'état in 1966 led by paratroopers loyal to future President Marien Ngouabi.
Who acts: troops, government · What happens: help, survive, lead · To what, where: coup d'état, 1966
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 (troops, government), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 troops | det |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 government | nmod:poss |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survive | nsubj |
| 6 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helped | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 d'état | det |
| 8 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 d'état | compound |
| 9 | d'état | d'état | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survive | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1966 | case |
| 11 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 survive | obl |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 survive | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 paratroopers | case |
| 14 | paratroopers | paratrooper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 led | obl |
| 15 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 paratroopers | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Marien | case |
| 17 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 President | amod |
| 18 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Marien | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Marien | Marien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 loyal | obl |
| 20 | Ngouabi | Ngouabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Marien | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | this troops | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | survive | infinitive | regime's government | a coup d'état | 1966 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme d'état=Circumstance | |||
| 3 | lead | participle | regime's government not said here | by paratroopers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by paratrooper=Destination |
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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