Central African Republic, sentence 249
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.
Large numbers of missionaries left the country when fighting broke out between rebel and government forces in 2002, but many of them have returned to continue their work.
Who acts: Large numbers, many, missionaries · What happens: leave, fight, break out, return, continue, work · To what, where: country, 2002, work
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 (Large numbers, many, missionaries), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 numbers | amod |
| 2 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 missionaries | case |
| 4 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 numbers | nmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 broke | advmod |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 broke | compound:prt |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 rebel | case |
| 13 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forces | cc |
| 15 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forces | compound |
| 16 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rebel | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2002 | case |
| 18 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 broke | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 returned | cc |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 many | nmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 returned | aux |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 continue | mark |
| 27 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 returned | advcl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 work | nmod:poss |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 continue | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Large numbers of missionaries | the country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | break out | past | 2002 | between rebel and government forces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between rebel=Location | ||||
| 4 | return | present · perfect | many of missionaries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | continue | to-infinitive | many of missionaries not said here | missionaries's work | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 6 | work | missionaries = missionary | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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