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title: South of these was Mpemba which stretched from modern-day Angola to… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics
description: South of these was Mpemba which stretched from modern-day Angola to the Congo River. Who acts: South. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Republic of the Congo, sentence 25

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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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South of these was Mpemba which stretched from modern-day Angola to the Congo River.

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**Who acts:** South · **What happens:** be, stretch · **To what, where:** Congo River

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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 (South), 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:25
# text = South of these was Mpemba which stretched from modern-day Angola to the Congo River.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Mpemba	Mpemba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	Angola	Angola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of this Mpemba | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | South |  |  | the Congo River | day |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Location |

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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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