Kinshasa, sentence 387
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.
Food processing is a major industry, and construction and other service industries also play a significant role in the economy.
Who acts: Food processing, construction · What happens: be, play · To what, where: major industry, significant role, economy
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 (Food processing, construction), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 processing | compound |
| 2 | processing | processing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 industry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 industry | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 industry | det |
| 5 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 industry | amod |
| 6 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 play | cc |
| 9 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 industries | cc |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 industries | amod |
| 12 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 industries | compound |
| 13 | industries | industry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 construction | conj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 play | advmod |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 industry | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 role | det |
| 17 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 role | amod |
| 18 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 economy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 economy | det |
| 21 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 industry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Food processing | a major industry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | present | construction and other service industries | a significant role | the economy | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
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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