Kinshasa, sentence 172
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The Malebo Pool extends roughly 35 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, bordered by Ngaliema in the west and Maluku in the east, and passes through other communes including Gombe, Barumbu, Limete, Masina, and Nsele.
Who acts: Malebo Pool · What happens: extend, border, pass, include · To what, where: west, Nsele, other communes
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kinshasa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malebo Pool), 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 | 3 Pool | det |
| 2 | Malebo | Malebo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pool | compound |
| 3 | Pool | Pool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 extends | nsubj |
| 4 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 35 | advmod |
| 6 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilometers | nummod |
| 7 | kilometers | kilometer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 long | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bordered | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wide | cc |
| 10 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 kilometers | nummod |
| 11 | kilometers | kilometer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bordered | punct |
| 14 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 extends | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Ngaliema | case |
| 16 | Ngaliema | Ngaliema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bordered | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 west | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 west | det |
| 19 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bordered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Maluku | cc |
| 21 | Maluku | Maluku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 west | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 east | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 east | det |
| 24 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 west | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 passes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 passes | cc |
| 27 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 extends | parataxis |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 communes | case |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 communes | amod |
| 30 | communes | commune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 passes | obl |
| 31 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 Gombe | case |
| 32 | Gombe | Gombe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 communes | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Barumbu | punct |
| 34 | Barumbu | Barumbu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Gombe | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Limete | punct |
| 36 | Limete | Limete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Gombe | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Masina | punct |
| 38 | Masina | Masina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Gombe | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Nsele | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Nsele | cc |
| 41 | Nsele | Nsele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 passes | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 extends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | the Malebo Pool | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | border | participle | the Malebo Pool not said here | the west in the east and Maluku | by Ngaliema | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | present | Nsele | other communes include Gombe and Limete and Masina | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through commune=Location | ||||
| 4 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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