Republic of the Congo, sentence 9

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.

After the introduction of multi-party elections in 1992, the democratically elected government was overthrown during the civil war, after which Denis Sassou Nguesso, who had previously served as president from 1979 to 1992, returned to office in 1997.

Who acts: Denis · What happens: elect, overthrow, serve, return, introduce · To what, where: elected government, Denis, 1979, 1997, multi-party 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 (Denis), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 introduction	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 introduction	det
3	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 overthrown	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 elections	case
5	multi-party	multi-party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elections	compound
6	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 introduction	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1992	case
8	1992	1992	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 elections	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 introduction	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 government	det
11	democratically	democratically	ADV	_	12 elected	advmod
12	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 government	amod
13	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 overthrown	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 overthrown	aux:pass
15	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	during	during	ADP	_	19 war	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 war	det
18	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 war	amod
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 overthrown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 returned	punct
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 returned	obl
23	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 returned	nsubj
24	Sassou	Sassou	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Denis	flat
25	Nguesso	Nguesso	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Denis	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 served	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 served	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 served	aux
29	previously	previously	ADV	_	30 served	advmod
30	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Denis	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 president	case
32	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 served	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 1979	case
34	1979	1979	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 served	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 1992	case
36	1992	1992	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 1979	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Denis	punct
38	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 overthrown	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 office	case
40	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 returned	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 1997	case
42	1997	1997	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 returned	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 overthrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elect	participle					democratically property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	overthrow	past · passive		the elected government		after the introduction of multi-party elections in 1992; during the civil war		tree rules
3	serve	past · perfect · passive		Denis	1979 to 1992		as president; previously property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as president=Attribute
4	return	past	Denis		1997		to office result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to office=Result
5	introduce			multi-party elections in 1992				nom introduction «act transitive»: of=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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