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title: Modeled on King Leopold's Congo Free State, concessions were doled o… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
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# Central African Republic, sentence 43

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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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Modeled on King Leopold's Congo Free State, concessions were doled out to private companies that endeavored to strip the region's assets as quickly and cheaply as possible before depositing a percentage of their profits into the French treasury.

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**Who acts:** private companies, concessions · **What happens:** model, dole out, endeavor, strip, deposit, profit · **To what, where:** Congo Free State, concessions, assets, percentage, French treasury

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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 (private companies, concessions), 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:43
# text = Modeled on King Leopold's Congo Free State, concessions were doled out to private companies that endeavored to strip the region's assets as quickly and cheaply as possible before depositing a percentage of their profits into the French treasury.
1	Modeled	model	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Leopold	Leopold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	concessions	concession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	doled	dole	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	strip	strip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	assets	asset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	depositing	deposit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	profits	profit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **model** | participle |  |  |  | Congo Free State |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dole out** | past · passive |  | concessions |  |  |  | to private companies | tree rules |
| 3 | **endeavor** | past | private companies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strip** | to-infinitive | private companies *not said here* | the region's assets |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asset=Patient |
| 5 | **deposit** | gerund | private companies *not said here* | a percentage of concessions's profits |  | the French treasury |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percentage=Theme |
| 6 | **profit** |  | concessions *= concession* |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: 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, «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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