Kinshasa, sentence 311
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.
In contrast to other diasporic groups, the Zombo showed a strong tendency toward integration and avoided repatriation while raising successive generations in Kinshasa, where they became culturally and linguistically assimilated.
Who acts: Zombo, Kinshasa · What happens: show, avoid, raise, become, assimilate · To what, where: strong tendency, repatriation, successive generations, Kinshasa
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 (Zombo, Kinshasa), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 contrast | case |
| 2 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 groups | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 groups | amod |
| 5 | diasporic | diasporic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 groups | amod |
| 6 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contrast | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 contrast | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Zombo | det |
| 9 | Zombo | Zombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tendency | det |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tendency | amod |
| 13 | tendency | tendency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 14 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 integration | case |
| 15 | integration | integration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tendency | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 avoided | cc |
| 17 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 showed | conj |
| 18 | repatriation | repatriation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 avoided | obj |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 raising | mark |
| 20 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 avoided | advcl |
| 21 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 generations | amod |
| 22 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 raising | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Kinshasa | case |
| 24 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 raising | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 became | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Kinshasa | acl:relcl |
| 29 | culturally | culturally | ADV | _ | 28 became | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 assimilated | cc |
| 31 | linguistically | linguistically | ADV | _ | 32 assimilated | advmod |
| 32 | assimilated | assimilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 became | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Zombo | a strong tendency | toward integration; in contrast to other diasporic groups | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tendency=Patient in contrast=Topic | |||
| 2 | avoid | past | the Zombo not said here | repatriation | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent repatriation=Location | ||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | the Zombo not said here | successive generations | Kinshasa | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent generation=Theme in kinshasa=Destination | |||
| 4 | become | past | Kinshasa | culturally property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | assimilate | participle | Kinshasa not said here | linguistically property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Kinshasa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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