Republic of the Congo, sentence 67

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.

He survived an attempted coup in 1972 and was assassinated on 18 March 1977.

Who acts: Ngouabi · What happens: survive, attempt, assassinate · To what, where: attempted coup, 1972, 18

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 (Ngouabi), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 survived	nsubj
2	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coup	det
4	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coup	amod
5	coup	coup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 survived	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1972	case
7	1972	1972	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 survived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 assassinated	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 assassinated	aux:pass
10	assassinated	assassinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 survived	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 18	case
12	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 assassinated	obl
13	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 18	nmod:unmarked
14	1977	1977	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 18	flat
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 survived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	survive	past	Ngouabi	a attempted coup	1972	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coup=Circumstance
2	attempt	participle				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	assassinate	past · passive	Ngouabi not said here		18 March	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»

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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