Republic of the Congo, sentence 92

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 violent protests in the capital, Sassou attacked the Pool region where the Ninja rebels of the civil war used to be based, in what was believed to be a distraction.

Who acts: Sassou, Ninja rebels · What happens: attack, use, base, believe, be · To what, where: Pool region, distraction

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, Ninja rebels), 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 protests	case
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 protests	amod
3	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attacked	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 capital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protests	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 protests	punct
8	Sassou	Sassou	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 attacked	nsubj
9	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 region	det
11	Pool	Pool	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 region	compound
12	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attacked	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 used	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rebels	det
15	Ninja	Ninja	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rebels	compound
16	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 used	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 war	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 war	det
19	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 war	amod
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rebels	nmod
21	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 region	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 based	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 based	aux:pass
24	based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 used	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 believed	punct
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 believed	mark
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 believed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 believed	aux:pass
29	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 based	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	33 distraction	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 distraction	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 distraction	det
33	distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 believed	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 attacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	attack	past	Sassou	the Pool region	after violent protests in the capital	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient
2	use	past	the Ninja rebels of the civil war			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	base	to-infinitive · passive	the Ninja rebels of the civil war not said here			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»
4	believe	past · passive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	is a	to-infinitive		a distraction		tree rules

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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