Kinshasa, sentence 70
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.
After its completion, the station began to transform, with the erection of prefabricated residences known as "Danish houses", which were imported from Belgium.
Who acts: station, link · What happens: begin, transform, know, import, complete, erect · To what, where: erection, prefabricated residences, Danish houses, Belgium
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 (station, link), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 completion | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 completion | nmod:poss |
| 3 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 completion | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 station | det |
| 6 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 transform | mark |
| 9 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 erection | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 erection | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 erection | det |
| 13 | erection | erection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transform | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 residences | case |
| 15 | prefabricated | prefabricated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 residences | amod |
| 16 | residences | residence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 erection | nmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 residences | acl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 houses | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 houses | punct |
| 20 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 houses | amod |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 known | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 houses | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 imported | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 imported | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 imported | aux:pass |
| 26 | imported | import | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 houses | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Belgium | case |
| 28 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 imported | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the station | after link's completion | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | transform | to-infinitive | the station not said here | the erection of prefabricated residences | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent erection=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | prefabricated residences not said here | as Danish houses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | import | past · passive | Danish houses | Belgium | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from belgium=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | complete | link | nom completion «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | erect | prefabricated residences | nom erection «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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