Kinshasa, sentence 505
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.
Kinshasa serves as the nation's principal media hub, hosting the largest concentration of media outlets in the country.
Who acts: Kinshasa · What happens: serve, host · To what, where: largest concentration, country
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 (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 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 serves | nsubj |
| 2 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 hub | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nation | det |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hub | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 nation | case |
| 7 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hub | amod |
| 8 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hub | compound |
| 9 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 serves | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hosting | punct |
| 11 | hosting | host | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 serves | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 concentration | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 concentration | amod |
| 14 | concentration | concentration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hosting | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 outlets | case |
| 16 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 outlets | compound |
| 17 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 concentration | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hosting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 serves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | Kinshasa | as the nation's principal media hub | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hub=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | host | gerund | Kinshasa not said here | the largest concentration of media outlets | the country | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concentration=Beneficiary |
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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