Kinshasa, sentence 282
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.
Its population grew from 5,000 in 1889 to 10,000 in 1910 and 39,530 in 1930, with an annual rise of roughly 4,700 people.
Who acts: population, 4,700 people · What happens: grow, rise · To what, where: 5,000
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 (population, 4,700 people), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 population | nmod:poss |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 5,000 | case |
| 5 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grew | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1889 | case |
| 7 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grew | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 10,000 | case |
| 9 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1889 | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1910 | case |
| 11 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grew | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 39,530 | cc |
| 13 | 39,530 | 39,530 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1910 | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1930 | case |
| 15 | 1930 | 1930 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rise | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rise | det |
| 19 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rise | amod |
| 20 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 22 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 23 4,700 | advmod |
| 23 | 4,700 | 4700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 people | nummod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rise | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | area's population | 5,000 | in 1889 to 10,000; in 1910; in 1930; a annual rise of 4,700 people parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1889=Location | |||
| 2 | rise | 4,700 people | nom rise «event 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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