Kinshasa, sentence 491
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 2019, the mini-series The Widow premiered on Amazon Prime and the UK's ITV network, following a woman searching for her husband in Kinshasa after he was presumed dead in a plane crash.
Who acts: mini series, woman · What happens: premier, follow, search, presume · To what, where: 2019, woman, husband, plane crash
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 (mini series, woman), 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 2019 | case |
| 2 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 premiered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2019 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 series | det |
| 5 | mini | mini | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 series | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mini | punct |
| 7 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 premiered | nsubj |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Widow | det |
| 9 | Widow | Widow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 series | appos |
| 10 | premiered | premier | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Prime | case |
| 12 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prime | compound |
| 13 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 10 premiered | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 network | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 UK | det |
| 16 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 network | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 UK | case |
| 18 | ITV | ITV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 network | compound |
| 19 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Prime | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 following | punct |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 premiered | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 following | obj |
| 24 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 woman | acl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 husband | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 searching | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Kinshasa | case |
| 29 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 husband | nmod |
| 30 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 33 presumed | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 presumed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 presumed | aux:pass |
| 33 | presumed | presume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 premiered | advcl |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 presumed | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 crash | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 crash | det |
| 37 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crash | compound |
| 38 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 presumed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 premiered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | premier | past | the mini series | 2019 | on Amazon Prime and the UK's ITV network | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the mini series not said here | a woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | gerund | a woman not said here | for series's husband in Kinshasa | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for husband=Theme | ||||
| 4 | presume | past · passive | husband | a plane crash | dead property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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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