Central African Republic, sentence 198
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 August 2025, Russia demanded that the Central African Republic pay its Africa Corps for armed protection rather than use the private mercenaries Wagner Group.
Who acts: Russia, Central African Republic · What happens: demand, pay, use · To what, where: Africa Corps, private mercenaries · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Russia, Central African Republic), 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 August | case |
| 2 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 demanded | obl |
| 3 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 August | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 August | punct |
| 5 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 demanded | nsubj |
| 6 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Republic | det |
| 9 | Central | Central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Republic | amod |
| 10 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Republic | compound |
| 11 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 demanded | ccomp |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Corps | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Corps | compound |
| 15 | Corps | Corps | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 protection | case |
| 17 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protection | amod |
| 18 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obl |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 use | cc |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 rather | fixed |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pay | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mercenaries | det |
| 23 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mercenaries | amod |
| 24 | mercenaries | mercenary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | obj |
| 25 | Wagner | Wagner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Group | compound |
| 26 | Group | Group | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 mercenaries | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | Russia | august | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | the Central African Republic | Prohibition's Africa Corps | for armed protection | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corps=Asset for protection=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | infinitive | the Central African Republic not said here | the private mercenaries | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercenary=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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