Republic of the Congo, sentence 90

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.

In March 2015, Sassou announced that he wanted to run for yet another term in office and a constitutional referendum in October resulted in a changed constitution that allowed him to run during the 2016 presidential election.

Who acts: Sassou, October, changed constitution · What happens: announce, want, run, result, change, allow · To what, where: constitutional referendum, changed constitution, Sassou · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sassou, October, changed constitution), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 March	case
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 announced	obl
3	2015	2015	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 March	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 March	punct
5	Sassou	Sassou	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 announced	nsubj
6	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 announced	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 run	mark
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 term	case
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 term	advmod
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 term	det
15	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 run	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 office	case
17	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 term	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 referendum	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 referendum	det
20	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 referendum	amod
21	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 term	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 October	case
23	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 resulted	nsubj
24	resulted	result	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 referendum	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 constitution	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 constitution	det
27	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 constitution	amod
28	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 resulted	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 allowed	nsubj
30	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 constitution	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 allowed	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 run	mark
33	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 allowed	xcomp
34	during	during	ADP	_	38 election	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 election	det
36	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 election	nummod
37	presidential	presidential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 election	amod
38	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 run	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 announced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	past	Sassou				march		vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	Sassou						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sassou not said here					for another term in office and a constitutional referendum	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for term=Beneficiary
4	result	past	October	a constitutional referendum not said here		a changed constitution			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location referendum=Theme
5	change	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	allow	past	a changed constitution		Sassou				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	a changed constitution not said here				during the 2016 presidential election		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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