Central African Republic, sentence 43
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Modeled on King Leopold's Congo Free State, concessions were doled out to private companies that endeavored to strip the region's assets as quickly and cheaply as possible before depositing a percentage of their profits into the French treasury.
Who acts: private companies, concessions · What happens: model, dole out, endeavor, strip, deposit, profit · To what, where: Congo Free State, concessions, assets, percentage, French treasury
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 (private companies, concessions), 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 | Modeled | model | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 State | case |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Leopold | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Leopold | Leopold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Leopold | case |
| 6 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | compound |
| 7 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 State | amod |
| 8 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Modeled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doled | punct |
| 10 | concessions | concession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doled | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 doled | aux:pass |
| 12 | doled | dole | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Modeled | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 doled | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 companies | case |
| 15 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 companies | amod |
| 16 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doled | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 endeavored | nsubj |
| 18 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 companies | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 strip | mark |
| 20 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 endeavored | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 region | det |
| 22 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 assets | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 region | case |
| 24 | assets | asset | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strip | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 quickly | case |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 strip | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cheaply | cc |
| 28 | cheaply | cheaply | ADV | _ | 26 quickly | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 possible | mark |
| 30 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strip | advcl |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 depositing | mark |
| 32 | depositing | deposit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 strip | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 percentage | det |
| 34 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 depositing | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 profits | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 profits | nmod:poss |
| 37 | profits | profit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 percentage | nmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 treasury | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 treasury | det |
| 40 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 treasury | amod |
| 41 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 depositing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Modeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | model | participle | Congo Free State | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dole out | past · passive | concessions | to private companies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | endeavor | past | private companies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | strip | to-infinitive | private companies not said here | the region's assets | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asset=Patient | ||||
| 5 | deposit | gerund | private companies not said here | a percentage of concessions's profits | the French treasury | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percentage=Theme | |||
| 6 | profit | concessions = concession | nom profit «possession 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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