Central African Republic, sentence 101

From Wikipedia, «Central African Republic», 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 November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military support to help them repel rebels who had taken control of towns in the country's northern regions.

Who acts: government, arms, rebels · What happens: request, help, repel, take · To what, where: French military support, arms, rebels, control, northern regions

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Central African Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, arms, rebels), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 November	case
2	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 requested	obl
3	2006	2006	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 November	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 November	punct
5	Bozizé	Bozizé	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 government	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Bozizé	case
7	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 requested	nsubj
8	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 support	amod
10	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 support	amod
11	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 requested	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 requested	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj
15	repel	repel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 help	xcomp
16	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 repel	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 taken	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 rebels	acl:relcl
20	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 towns	case
22	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 control	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	28 regions	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 country	det
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 regions	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 country	case
27	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 regions	amod
28	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 taken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	request	past	Bozizé's government	French military support		november	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent support=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive	Bozizé's government not said here	arms = arm			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	repel	infinitive	arms = arm not said here	rebels			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rebel=Experiencer
4	take	past · perfect	rebels	control of towns	the country's northern regions		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in region=Location

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, «Central African Republic», 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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The tree

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Central African Republic, sentence 101