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title: Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics
description: Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed a 20-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union. Who acts: Sassou. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Republic of the Congo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Republic of the Congo, sentence 70

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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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Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed a 20-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union.

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**Who acts:** Sassou · **What happens:** align, sign · **To what, where:** country, 20-year friendship pact

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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 (Sassou), 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:70
# text = Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed a 20-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union.
1	Sassou	Sassou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Nguesso	Nguesso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	aligned	align	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bloc	bloc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	20-year	20-year	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pact	pact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **align** | past | Sassou | the country |  |  |  | with the Eastern Bloc | tree rules |
| 2 | **sign** | past | Sassou *not said here* | a 20-year friendship pact |  |  |  | with the Soviet Union | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent pact=Destination with union=Theme |

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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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