Republic of the Congo, sentence 85

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.

A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted the president new powers, extended his term to seven years and introduced a new bicameral assembly.

Who acts: constitution, president · What happens: agree, grant, extend, introduce, term · To what, where: constitution, president, term, new bicameral assembly

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 (constitution, president), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 constitution	det
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 granted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 constitution	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 referendum	case
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 referendum	case
7	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 January	case
9	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 referendum	nmod
10	2002	2002	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 January	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 constitution	punct
12	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 president	det
14	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 granted	obj
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 powers	amod
16	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 granted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 extended	punct
18	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 granted	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 term	nmod:poss
20	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 extended	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 extended	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 introduced	cc
25	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 extended	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 assembly	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 assembly	amod
28	bicameral	bicameral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 assembly	amod
29	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 introduced	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle		a constitution not said here		upon referendum in January 2002	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grant	past	a constitution	the president			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent president=Goal power=Theme
3	extend	past	a constitution not said here	president's term	year		vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent term=Theme
4	introduce	past	a constitution not said here	a new bicameral assembly			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient
5	term		president				nom term «communication 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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