Republic of the Congo, sentence 77
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.
As presidential elections scheduled for July 1997 approached, tensions between the Lissouba and Sassou camps mounted.
Who acts: presidential elections, tensions · What happens: schedule, approach, camp, mount · To what, where: presidential elections
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 (presidential elections, tensions), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 approached | mark |
| 2 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elections | amod |
| 3 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 approached | nsubj |
| 4 | scheduled | schedule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 elections | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 July | case |
| 6 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 scheduled | obl |
| 7 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 camps | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 approached | punct |
| 10 | tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 camps | nsubj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Lissouba | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lissouba | det |
| 13 | Lissouba | Lissouba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tensions | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Sassou | cc |
| 15 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lissouba | conj |
| 16 | camps | camp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 camps | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 camps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | schedule | participle | presidential elections not said here | july | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | presidential elections | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | camp | present | tensions between the Lissouba and Sassou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mount | participle | tensions between the Lissouba and Sassou not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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