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title: The law gave the city government responsibility for strategic planni… — Kigali · tree and pragmatics
description: The law gave the city government responsibility for strategic planning and urban development, as well as liaising with the three constituent districts and monitoring the districts' development plans. Who acts: law, districts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kigali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Kigali, sentence 190

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From Wikipedia, [«Kigali»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigali), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The law gave the city government responsibility for strategic planning and urban development, as well as liaising with the three constituent districts and monitoring the districts' development plans.

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**Who acts:** law, districts · **What happens:** give, liaise, monitor, plan · **To what, where:** government responsibility, development plans

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kigali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, districts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kigali:190
# text = The law gave the city government responsibility for strategic planning and urban development, as well as liaising with the three constituent districts and monitoring the districts' development plans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	liaising	liaise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	constituent	constituent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	monitoring	monitor	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the law | the government responsibility |  |  |  | for strategic planning and urban development | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme for planning=Asset |
| 2 | **liaise** | gerund | the law *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the three constituent districts | tree rules |
| 3 | **monitor** | gerund | the law *not said here* | the districts's development plans |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 4 | **plan** |  | the districts |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kigali», 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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