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title: The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Centra… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. Who acts: Central African Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Central African Republic, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Central African Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic), 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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The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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**Who acts:** Central African Republic · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** landlocked country, Central Africa

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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 (Central African Republic), 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:Central_African_Republic:1
# text = The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	CAR	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Central African Republic | a landlocked country |  | Central Africa |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «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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