Central African Republic, sentence 205
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.
Witchcraft is a criminal offense under the penal code.
Who acts: Witchcraft · What happens: be · To what, where: criminal offense, penal code
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 (Witchcraft), 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 | Witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offense | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 offense | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 offense | det |
| 4 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 offense | amod |
| 5 | offense | offense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 code | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 code | det |
| 8 | penal | penal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 code | amod |
| 9 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offense | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Witchcraft | a criminal offense | the penal code | tree rules |
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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