Brazzaville, sentence 18
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.
To distinguish between the two African countries that have "Congo" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa.
Who acts: two African countries, names, capital · What happens: distinguish, have, call, oppose, name · To what, where: Congo, names, Republic · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two African countries, names, capital), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 distinguish | mark |
| 2 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 countries | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 countries | nummod |
| 6 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 countries | amod |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 distinguish | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 countries | acl:relcl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Congo | punct |
| 11 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Congo | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 names | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 names | nmod:poss |
| 15 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Republic | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Republic | det |
| 18 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Congo | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Congo | det |
| 21 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Republic | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 called | advmod |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 names | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Brazzaville | punct |
| 27 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Congo | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 opposed | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 opposed | mark |
| 30 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 distinguish | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Congo | case |
| 32 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 opposed | obl |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Kinshasa | punct |
| 34 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Congo | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 distinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | to-infinitive | between the two African countries | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent between country=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the two African countries | Congo | capital's names | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congo=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | capital's names not said here | the Republic of the Congo | Congo and Brazzaville xcomp; sometimes property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | oppose | participle | Congo and Kinshasa | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | name | capital | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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