Central African Republic, sentence 46

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.

During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads were built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity.

Who acts: French, policy, attempts · What happens: introduce, build, make, combat, sleep, establish · To what, where: policy, network, attempts, sickness, Protestant missions, Christianity

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 (French, policy, attempts), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 1920s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1920s	det
3	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 introduced	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 1930s	cc
5	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 1920s	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 French	det
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 introduced	nsubj
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 policy	det
10	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 introduced	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 cultivation	case
12	mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cultivation	compound
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cultivation	compound
14	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 policy	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 network	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 network	det
17	network	network	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cultivation	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 roads	case
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 built	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 built	aux:pass
21	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 network	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
23	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 made	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux:pass
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 policy	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 combat	mark
27	combat	combat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 made	xcomp
28	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 combat	xcomp
29	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sleeping	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 established	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 established	cc
32	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 missions	amod
33	missions	mission	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 established	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 established	aux:pass
35	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 introduced	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 spread	mark
37	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 established	advcl
38	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 spread	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 introduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	past	the French	a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation	during the 1920s and 1930s		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Patient
2	build	past · passive		a network not said here		of roads	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»
3	make	past · passive	a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation not said here	attempts			tree rules
4	combat	to-infinitive	attempts not said here				tree rules
5	sleep	gerund	attempts not said here	sickness			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme
6	establish	past · passive		Protestant missions			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	spread	to-infinitive		Christianity			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location christianity=Theme

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Central African Republic», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Central African Republic, sentence 46