Rwanda, sentence 55

From Wikipedia, «Rwanda», 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 1894, explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first European to cross the entire territory of Rwanda; he crossed from the south-east to Lake Kivu and met the king.

Who acts: 1894 explorer, Conference · What happens: be, cross, meet · To what, where: entire territory, Lake, south east, king

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rwanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1894 explorer, Conference), 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 1894	case
2	1894	1894	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 explorer	nummod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1894	punct
4	explorer	explorer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 European	nsubj
5	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 explorer	appos
6	Adolf	Adolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gustav	flat
7	von	von	PROPN	_	5 Gustav	appos
8	Götzen	Götzen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 von	flat
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 European	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 European	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 European	amod
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cross	mark
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 European	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 territory	det
16	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 territory	amod
17	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Rwanda	case
19	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 territory	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 crossed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 crossed	nsubj
22	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 European	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 east	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 east	det
25	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 east	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 south	punct
27	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crossed	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Lake	case
29	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 crossed	obl
30	Kivu	Kivu	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Lake	flat
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 met	cc
32	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 crossed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 met	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 European	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	1894 explorer				european property	tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive	1894 explorer not said here	the entire territory of Rwanda				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Patient
3	cross	past	Conference		Lake	the south east		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from east=Initial_Location to lake=Destination
4	meet	past	Conference not said here	the king				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent

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, «Rwanda», 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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Rwanda, sentence 55