Republic of the Congo, sentence 70
From Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», 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.
Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed a 20-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union.
Who acts: Sassou · What happens: align, sign · To what, where: country, 20-year friendship pact
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sassou), 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 | Sassou | Sassou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aligned | nsubj |
| 2 | Nguesso | Nguesso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sassou | flat |
| 3 | aligned | align | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aligned | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Bloc | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bloc | det |
| 8 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bloc | amod |
| 9 | Bloc | bloc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aligned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 signed | cc |
| 11 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aligned | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pact | det |
| 13 | 20-year | 20-year | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 15 pact | amod |
| 14 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pact | compound |
| 15 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 signed | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Union | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Union | det |
| 18 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Union | compound |
| 19 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pact | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aligned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align | past | Sassou | the country | with the Eastern Bloc | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sign | past | Sassou not said here | a 20-year friendship pact | with the Soviet Union | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent pact=Destination with union=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.
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