Angola, sentence 63
From Wikipedia, «Angola», 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.
Kongolese kings needed this influence to garner support from European powers for quelling internal rebellions.
Who acts: Kongolese kings · What happens: need, garner, quell · To what, where: influence, support, European powers, internal rebellions
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Angola». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kongolese kings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | Kongolese | kongolese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kings | amod |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 influence | det |
| 5 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 garner | mark |
| 7 | garner | garner | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needed | advcl |
| 8 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garner | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 powers | case |
| 10 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 powers | amod |
| 11 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 garner | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 quelling | mark |
| 13 | quelling | quell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 garner | advcl |
| 14 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rebellions | amod |
| 15 | rebellions | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 quelling | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | Kongolese kings | this influence | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot influence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | garner | to-infinitive | Kongolese kings not said here | support | European powers | tree rules | |||
| 3 | quell | gerund | Kongolese kings not said here | internal rebellions | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebellion=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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