---
title: The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-colonial rebellion in Africa during the interwar years, was carefully hidden from the French public because it provided evidence of strong opposition to French colonial rule and forced labour. Who acts: insurrection, extent. A sente
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Central_African_Republic/50/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Central African Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Central_African_Republic/) / 50

# Central African Republic, sentence 50

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-colonial rebellion in Africa during the interwar years, was carefully hidden from the French public because it provided evidence of strong opposition to French colonial rule and forced labour.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** insurrection, extent · **What happens:** be, hide, provide, force, extend, evidence · **To what, where:** largest anti-colonial rebellion, Africa, extent, French public, evidence, French colonial rule

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (insurrection, extent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:50
# text = The extent of this insurrection, which was perhaps the largest anti-colonial rebellion in Africa during the interwar years, was carefully hidden from the French public because it provided evidence of strong opposition to French colonial rule and forced labour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	insurrection	insurrection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	anti-colonial	anti-colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	interwar	interwar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this insurrection | the largest anti-colonial rebellion |  | Africa | year | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past · passive |  | the extent of this insurrection |  | the French public |  | carefully *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from public=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **provide** | past | extent | evidence of strong opposition | French colonial rule and forced labour |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme to rule=Recipient |
| 4 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **extend** |  |  | this insurrection |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **evidence** |  |  | strong opposition |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Central_African_Republic/49/)
- next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Central_African_Republic/51/)
- ↑ back to [Central African Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Central_African_Republic/)