Republic of the Congo, sentence 78
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.
On 5 June, President Lissouba's government forces surrounded Sassou's compound in Brazzaville, and Sassou ordered members of his private militia (known as "Cobras") to resist.
Who acts: Brazzaville, Sassou · What happens: surround, order, know, resist, compound · To what, where: government forces, members, private militia
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 (Brazzaville, Sassou), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 June | case |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | nummod |
| 3 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 June | punct |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lissouba | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Lissouba | Lissouba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forces | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lissouba | case |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forces | compound |
| 9 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 compound | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sassou | case |
| 13 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Brazzaville | case |
| 15 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | cc |
| 18 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 surrounded | parataxis |
| 20 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ordered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 militia | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 militia | nmod:poss |
| 23 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 militia | amod |
| 24 | militia | militia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 members | nmod |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 known | punct |
| 26 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 militia | acl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Cobras | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Cobras | punct |
| 29 | Cobras | Cobras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 known | obl |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Cobras | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 Cobras | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 resist | mark |
| 33 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 known | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | Brazzaville | Lissouba President's government forces | june | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | past | Sassou | members of Sassou's private militia | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | Sassou's private militia not said here | as Cobras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as cobras=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | resist | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | compound | Sassou | nom compound «cognition transitive»: 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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