Kigali, sentence 190
From Wikipedia, «Kigali», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The law gave the city government responsibility for strategic planning and urban development, as well as liaising with the three constituent districts and monitoring the districts' development plans.
Who acts: law, districts · What happens: give, liaise, monitor, plan · To what, where: government responsibility, development plans
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kigali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, districts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 responsibility | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 government | compound |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 responsibility | compound |
| 7 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 planning | case |
| 9 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 planning | amod |
| 10 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 development | cc |
| 12 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 development | amod |
| 13 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 planning | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 liaising | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 18 liaising | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | liaising | liaise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 districts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 districts | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 districts | nummod |
| 22 | constituent | constituent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 districts | compound |
| 23 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 liaising | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 monitoring | cc |
| 25 | monitoring | monitor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 liaising | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 districts | det |
| 27 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 plans | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 districts | case |
| 29 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 plans | compound |
| 30 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 monitoring | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the law | the government responsibility | for strategic planning and urban development | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme for planning=Asset | |||
| 2 | liaise | gerund | the law not said here | with the three constituent districts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | monitor | gerund | the law not said here | the districts's development plans | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | the districts | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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