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title: It is located near the country's geographic centre, in a landscape o… — Kigali · tree and pragmatics
description: It is located near the country's geographic centre, in a landscape of rolling hills marked by valleys and ridges connected by steep slopes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kigali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kigali, sentence 2

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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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It is located near the country's geographic centre, in a landscape of rolling hills marked by valleys and ridges connected by steep slopes.

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**What happens:** locate, mark, connect · **To what, where:** capital, geographic centre, rolling hills, valleys

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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: 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:2
# text = It is located near the country's geographic centre, in a landscape of rolling hills marked by valleys and ridges connected by steep slopes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	geographic	geographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | capital |  | the country's geographic centre |  | a landscape of rolling hills *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mark** | participle |  | rolling hills *not said here* |  |  |  | by valleys and ridges | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by valley=Destination |
| 3 | **connect** | participle |  | valleys and ridges *not said here* |  |  |  | by steep slopes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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