Kinshasa, sentence 177
From Wikipedia, «Kinshasa», 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.
It comprises stony blocks of soft sandstone and silica-covered yellow clay, topped with brown silt, and ranges from 10 to 25 meters in height.
Who acts: plain, ranges · What happens: comprise, cover, top, meter · To what, where: stony blocks, covered yellow clay, height
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 (plain, ranges), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comprises | nsubj |
| 2 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blocks | amod |
| 4 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comprises | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sandstone | case |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sandstone | amod |
| 7 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocks | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clay | cc |
| 9 | silica | silica | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 silica | punct |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 clay | amod |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clay | amod |
| 13 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sandstone | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 topped | punct |
| 15 | topped | top | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 clay | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 silt | case |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 silt | amod |
| 18 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 topped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 meters | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 meters | cc |
| 21 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 meters | nsubj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 10 | case |
| 23 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 ranges | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 25 | case |
| 25 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 10 | nmod |
| 26 | meters | meter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comprises | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 height | case |
| 28 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meters | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comprises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | present | plain | stony blocks of soft sandstone and covered yellow clay | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme block=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | silica compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | top | participle | covered yellow clay not said here | with brown silt | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meter | ranges from 10 to 25 | height | tree rules |
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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