Central African Republic, sentence 225
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.
River ferries sail from the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo.
Who acts: River ferries · What happens: sail · To what, where: river port
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 (River ferries), 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 | River | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ferries | compound |
| 2 | ferries | ferry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sail | nsubj |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 port | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 port | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 port | compound |
| 7 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Bangui | case |
| 9 | Bangui | Bangui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 port | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Brazzaville | case |
| 11 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 port | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Zongo | cc |
| 13 | Zongo | Zongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brazzaville | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | River ferries | the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from port=Trajectory |
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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