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title: To distinguish between the two African countries that have "Congo" i… — Brazzaville · tree and pragmatics
description: To distinguish between the two African countries that have "Congo" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa. Who acts: two African countries, names, capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazzaville» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Brazzaville, sentence 18

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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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To distinguish between the two African countries that have "Congo" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa.

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**Who acts:** two African countries, names, capital · **What happens:** distinguish, have, call, oppose, name · **To what, where:** Congo, names, Republic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (two African countries, names, capital), 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:18
# text = To distinguish between the two African countries that have "Congo" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distinguish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | between the two African countries | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent between country=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the two African countries | Congo |  | capital's names |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congo=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive | capital's names *not said here* | the Republic of the Congo |  |  |  | Congo and Brazzaville *xcomp*; sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **oppose** | participle |  |  | Congo and Kinshasa |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | capital |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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