Central African Republic, sentence 154
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 2008, Central African Republic was the world's least light pollution affected country.
Who acts: African Republic, least light pollution, world · What happens: be, affect, pollute · To what, where: 2008, country
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 (African Republic, least light pollution, world), 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 2008 | case |
| 2 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 was | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2008 | punct |
| 4 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 African | flat |
| 5 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Republic | compound |
| 6 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pollution | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 world | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 pollution | amod |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pollution | compound |
| 13 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 14 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pollution | acl |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 affected | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | African Republic | 2008 | the world's least light pollution nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2008=Location | |||
| 2 | affect | participle | the world's least light pollution not said here | country | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus country=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pollute | the world | nom pollution «state 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.
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