Brazzaville, sentence 119
From Wikipedia, «Brazzaville», 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.
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Gabonese politician, 3rd President of Gabon since 2009
Who acts: Ali · What happens: bear · To what, where: 1959, Ali
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazzaville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Bongo | Bongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | Ondimba | Ondimba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ali | acl |
| 6 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 born | obj |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 politician | punct |
| 9 | Gabonese | gabonese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 politician | amod |
| 10 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 President | punct |
| 12 | 3rd | 3rd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 President | amod |
| 13 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 politician | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Gabon | case |
| 15 | Gabon | Gabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 President | nmod |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 2009 | case |
| 17 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 politician | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | Ali not said here | 1959 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1959=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Brazzaville», 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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