--- title: Youlou, an avid anti-communist, became the first President of the Re… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics description: Youlou, an avid anti-communist, became the first President of the Republic of the Congo. Who acts: Youlou. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/48/) [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/) / [Republic of the Congo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/) / 48 # Republic of the Congo, sentence 48 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. Youlou, an avid anti-communist, became the first President of the Republic of the Congo. **Who acts:** Youlou · **What happens:** become 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 (Youlou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:48 # text = Youlou, an avid anti-communist, became the first President of the Republic of the Congo. 1 Youlou Youlou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 avid avid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 anti-communist anti-communist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Youlou | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/49/) - ↑ back to [Republic of the Congo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/)