Republic of the Congo, sentence 76
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.
Congo's democratic progress was derailed in 1997 when Lissouba and Sassou started to fight for power in the civil war.
Who acts: Lissouba, Congo · What happens: derail, start, fight, progress · To what, where: democratic progress, 1997, civil war
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 (Lissouba, Congo), 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 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 progress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Congo | case |
| 3 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 progress | amod |
| 4 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 derailed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 derailed | aux:pass |
| 6 | derailed | derail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1997 | case |
| 8 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 derailed | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 started | mark |
| 10 | Lissouba | Lissouba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Sassou | cc |
| 12 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lissouba | conj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 derailed | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 20 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 war | amod |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 derailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derail | past · passive | Congo's democratic progress | 1997 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Lissouba and Sassou | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | Lissouba and Sassou not said here | the civil war | for power | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | progress | Congo | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=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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