Republic of the Congo, sentence 79

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.

Thus began a four-month conflict that destroyed or damaged some of Brazzaville and caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths.

Who acts: month conflict · What happens: begin, destroy, damage, cause · To what, where: month conflict, some, tens

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 (month conflict), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 began	advmod
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 conflict	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 month	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 four	punct
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conflict	compound
7	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 destroyed	nsubj
9	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conflict	acl:relcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 damaged	cc
11	damaged	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 destroyed	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 damaged	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Brazzaville	case
14	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 some	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 caused	cc
16	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 destroyed	conj
17	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caused	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 thousands	case
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tens	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 deaths	case
21	civilian	civilian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deaths	amod
22	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thousands	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past		a month conflict	thus property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Eventuality
2	destroy	past	a month conflict			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	damage	past	a month conflict not said here	some		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	cause	past	a month conflict not said here	tens of thousands of civilian deaths		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ten=Patient

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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