Central African Republic, sentence 50
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The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-colonial rebellion in Africa during the interwar years, was carefully hidden from the French public because it provided evidence of strong opposition to French colonial rule and forced labour.
Who acts: insurrection, extent · What happens: be, hide, provide, force, extend, evidence · To what, where: largest anti-colonial rebellion, Africa, extent, French public, evidence, French colonial rule
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 (insurrection, extent), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 extent | det |
| 2 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 insurrection | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 insurrection | det |
| 5 | insurrection | insurrection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 extent | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rebellion | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rebellion | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rebellion | cop |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 rebellion | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rebellion | det |
| 11 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 rebellion | amod |
| 12 | anti-colonial | anti-colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rebellion | amod |
| 13 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 insurrection | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rebellion | nmod |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 years | det |
| 18 | interwar | interwar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rebellion | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 extent | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | aux:pass |
| 22 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 23 hidden | advmod |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 public | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 public | det |
| 26 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 public | amod |
| 27 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | obl |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 provided | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 provided | nsubj |
| 30 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | advcl |
| 31 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 provided | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 opposition | case |
| 33 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 opposition | amod |
| 34 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 evidence | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 rule | case |
| 36 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rule | amod |
| 37 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rule | amod |
| 38 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 provided | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 labour | cc |
| 40 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 labour | amod |
| 41 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rule | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this insurrection | the largest anti-colonial rebellion | Africa | year | perhaps property | tree rules | |
| 2 | hide | past · passive | the extent of this insurrection | the French public | carefully property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from public=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | provide | past | extent | evidence of strong opposition | French colonial rule and forced labour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme to rule=Recipient | |||
| 4 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | extend | this insurrection | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | evidence | strong opposition | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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