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title: In 2006–07, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society studi… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2006–07, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society studied gorillas in "heavily forested" regions centered on the Ouesso District of the Sangha Region. Who acts: researchers, forested regions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Republic of the Congo, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Republic of the Congo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo), 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 2006–07, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society studied gorillas in "heavily forested" regions centered on the Ouesso District of the Sangha Region.

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**Who acts:** researchers, forested regions · **What happens:** study, forest, center · **To what, where:** gorillas, 2006

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (researchers, forested regions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Republic_of_the_Congo:106
# text = In 2006–07, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society studied gorillas in "heavily forested" regions centered on the Ouesso District of the Sangha Region.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	07	07	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	researchers	researcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Wildlife	Wildlife	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Conservation	Conservation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	forested	forest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
19	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	centered	center	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Ouesso	Ouesso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Sangha	Sangha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | past | researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society | gorillas |  | 2006 |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gorilla=Topic |
| 2 | **forest** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **center** | past | forested regions |  |  |  |  | on the Ouesso District of the Sangha Region | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on district=Topic |

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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, «Republic of the Congo», 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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