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title: In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military supp… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military support to help them repel rebels who had taken control of towns in the country's northern regions. Who acts: government, arms, rebels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Central African Republic, sentence 101

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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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In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military support to help them repel rebels who had taken control of towns in the country's northern regions.

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**Who acts:** government, arms, rebels · **What happens:** request, help, repel, take · **To what, where:** French military support, arms, rebels, control, northern regions

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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 (government, arms, rebels), 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:101
# text = In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military support to help them repel rebels who had taken control of towns in the country's northern regions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Bozizé	Bozizé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	repel	repel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past | Bozizé's government | French military support |  |  | november |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent support=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Bozizé's government *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **repel** | infinitive | arms *= arm* *not said here* | rebels |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rebel=Experiencer |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | rebels | control of towns |  | the country's northern regions |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in region=Location |

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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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