Republic of the Congo, sentence 83
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.
His two main rivals, Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas, were prevented from competing.
What happens: prevent, compete · To what, where: two main rivals
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 rivals | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rivals | nummod |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rivals | amod |
| 4 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prevented | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lissouba | punct |
| 6 | Lissouba | Lissouba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rivals | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Bernard | cc |
| 8 | Bernard | Bernard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lissouba | conj |
| 9 | Kolelas | Kolelas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bernard | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rivals | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prevented | aux:pass |
| 12 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 competing | mark |
| 14 | competing | compete | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 prevented | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 prevented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | past · passive | Sassou's two main rivals | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compete | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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