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title: 70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzavi… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics
description: 70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the cities or villages lining the 534 km, railway which connects the two cities. Who acts: cities, railway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Republic of the Congo, sentence 162

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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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70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the cities or villages lining the 534 km, railway which connects the two cities.

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**Who acts:** cities, railway · **What happens:** live, line, connect · **To what, where:** urban areas, 534 km, two cities

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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 (cities, railway), 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:162
# text = 70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the cities or villages lining the 534 km, railway which connects the two cities.
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Pointe	Pointe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Noire	Noire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	lining	line	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	534	534	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present |  |  |  | urban areas in namely Brazzaville and Noire |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |
| 2 | **line** | gerund | the cities or villages *not said here* | the 534 km |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Destination |
| 3 | **connect** | present | railway | the two cities |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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, «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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