--- title: Imagine standing on the bank of the Congo River in Kinshasa: across… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine standing on the bank of the Congo River in Kinshasa: across the water you can see Brazzaville, the capital of a different country, the Republic of the Congo. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Africa: countries and capitals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/) / 6 # Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 6 Imagine standing on the bank of the Congo River in Kinshasa: across the water you can see Brazzaville, the capital of a different country, the Republic of the Congo. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** imagine, stand, see · **To what, where:** bank, Brazzaville, water This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:6 # text = Imagine standing on the bank of the Congo River in Kinshasa: across the water you can see Brazzaville, the capital of a different country, the Republic of the Congo. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Kinshasa Kinshasa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 19 Brazzaville Brazzaville PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the bank of the Congo River in Kinshasa | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | | 3 | **see** | can | you | Brazzaville | | the water | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brazzaville=Stimulus | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Africa: countries and capitals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/5/) - next →: [Africa: countries and capitals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/)