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title: Franklin Boukaka (1940–1972), a Congolese baritone singer, guitarist… — Brazzaville · tree and pragmatics
description: Franklin Boukaka (1940–1972), a Congolese baritone singer, guitarist, and songwriter who is recognized as a pioneer of Congolese popular music A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazzaville» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazzaville, sentence 130

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From Wikipedia, [«Brazzaville»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Franklin Boukaka (1940–1972), a Congolese baritone singer, guitarist, and songwriter who is recognized as a pioneer of Congolese popular music

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**What happens:** recognize · **To what, where:** songwriter, Franklin

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazzaville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Brazzaville:130
# text = Franklin Boukaka (1940–1972), a Congolese baritone singer, guitarist, and songwriter who is recognized as a pioneer of Congolese popular music
1	Franklin	Franklin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Boukaka	Boukaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1940	1940	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1972	1972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	baritone	baritone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	guitarist	guitarist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	songwriter	songwriter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | present · passive |  | songwriter |  |  |  | as a pioneer of Congolese popular music | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as pioneer=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Brazzaville», 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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