Kigali, sentence 253
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.
On Genocide Memorial Day, a national holiday observed every year on 7 April, the Kigali Genocide Memorial hosts Kwibuka, during which the president lights a "flame of hope" and addresses the nation.
Who acts: Kigali Genocide Memorial, president, hope · What happens: observe, host, light, address, flame · To what, where: national holiday, 7, Kwibuka, flame, nation
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 (Kigali Genocide Memorial, president, hope), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Day | case |
| 2 | Genocide | Genocide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | compound |
| 3 | Memorial | Memorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | compound |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hosts | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Day | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 holiday | det |
| 7 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 holiday | amod |
| 8 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | appos |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 holiday | acl |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 7 | case |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 observed | obl |
| 14 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Day | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Memorial | det |
| 17 | Kigali | Kigali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Memorial | compound |
| 18 | Genocide | Genocide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Memorial | compound |
| 19 | Memorial | Memorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hosts | nsubj |
| 20 | hosts | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Kwibuka | Kwibuka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hosts | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lights | punct |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lights | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 president | det |
| 26 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lights | nsubj |
| 27 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hosts | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 flame | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 flame | punct |
| 30 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lights | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hope | case |
| 32 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flame | nmod |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 flame | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 addresses | cc |
| 35 | addresses | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hosts | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 nation | det |
| 37 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 addresses | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hosts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | participle | a national holiday not said here | 7 April | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | host | present | the Kigali Genocide Memorial | Kwibuka | on Genocide Memorial Day | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kwibuka=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | light | present | the president | a flame of hope | which obl | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Product | |||
| 4 | address | present | the Kigali Genocide Memorial not said here | the nation | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Destination | ||||
| 5 | flame in a quote | hope | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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