Republic of the Congo, sentence 85
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.
A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted the president new powers, extended his term to seven years and introduced a new bicameral assembly.
Who acts: constitution, president · What happens: agree, grant, extend, introduce, term · To what, where: constitution, president, term, new bicameral assembly
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 (constitution, president), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 constitution | acl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 referendum | case |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 referendum | case |
| 7 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 January | case |
| 9 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 referendum | nmod |
| 10 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 constitution | punct |
| 12 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 president | det |
| 14 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 granted | obj |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 powers | amod |
| 16 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 granted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 extended | punct |
| 18 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 granted | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 term | nmod:poss |
| 20 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 extended | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 extended | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 introduced | cc |
| 25 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 extended | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 assembly | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 assembly | amod |
| 28 | bicameral | bicameral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 assembly | amod |
| 29 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 introduced | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | a constitution not said here | upon referendum in January 2002 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grant | past | a constitution | the president | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent president=Goal power=Theme | ||||
| 3 | extend | past | a constitution not said here | president's term | year | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent term=Theme | |||
| 4 | introduce | past | a constitution not said here | a new bicameral assembly | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient | ||||
| 5 | term | president | nom term «communication transitive»: 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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