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title: In August 2025, Russia demanded that the Central African Republic pa… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In August 2025, Russia demanded that the Central African Republic pay its Africa Corps for armed protection rather than use the private mercenaries Wagner Group. Who acts: Russia, 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 198

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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 August 2025, Russia demanded that the Central African Republic pay its Africa Corps for armed protection rather than use the private mercenaries Wagner Group.

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**Who acts:** Russia, Central African Republic · **What happens:** demand, pay, use · **To what, where:** Africa Corps, private mercenaries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Russia, 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:198
# text = In August 2025, Russia demanded that the Central African Republic pay its Africa Corps for armed protection rather than use the private mercenaries Wagner Group.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Corps	Corps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mercenaries	mercenary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	Wagner	Wagner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Group	Group	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Russia |  |  |  | august |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive | the Central African Republic | Prohibition's Africa Corps |  |  |  | for armed protection | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corps=Asset for protection=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive | the Central African Republic *not said here* | the private mercenaries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercenary=Patient |

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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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