Kinshasa, sentence 599
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.
Rivers are the main connection of Kinshasa with much of the country due to the fractured and poor state of the road network, and the limited extent of rail network.
Who acts: Rivers · What happens: be, fracture, extend · To what, where: main connection, rail network
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 (Rivers), 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 | Rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 connection | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 connection | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 connection | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 connection | amod |
| 5 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kinshasa | case |
| 7 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 connection | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 state | case |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 state | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 13 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 state | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 due | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 state | det |
| 16 | fractured | fracture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 state | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poor | cc |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fractured | conj |
| 19 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 connection | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 network | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 network | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 network | compound |
| 23 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 state | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 extent | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 extent | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 extent | det |
| 27 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 extent | amod |
| 28 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 connection | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 network | case |
| 30 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 network | compound |
| 31 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 extent | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 connection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Rivers | the main connection and the limited extent of rail network | of Kinshasa; with the fractured state of the road network; the limited extent of rail network conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fracture | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | extend | rail network | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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