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title: During Massamba-Débat's term in office, the regime adopted "scientif… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics
description: During Massamba-Débat's term in office, the regime adopted "scientific socialism" as the country's constitutional ideology. Who acts: Massamba Débat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Republic of the Congo, sentence 54

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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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During Massamba-Débat's term in office, the regime adopted "scientific socialism" as the country's constitutional ideology.

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**Who acts:** Massamba Débat · **What happens:** adopt, term · **To what, where:** regime, office

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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 (Massamba Débat), 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:54
# text = During Massamba-Débat's term in office, the regime adopted "scientific socialism" as the country's constitutional ideology.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	Massamba	Massamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Débat	Débat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	socialism	socialism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ideology	ideology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | participle · passive |  | the regime |  |  | during Massamba Débat's term in office | as the country's constitutional ideology | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme socialism=Attribute |
| 2 | **term** |  | Massamba Débat |  |  | office |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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