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title: Although the constitution allows freedom of assembly, with protests… — Kigali · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the constitution allows freedom of assembly, with protests and demonstrations allowed with a permit, such gatherings in Rwanda are rare. Who acts: protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kigali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kigali, sentence 219

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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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Although the constitution allows freedom of assembly, with protests and demonstrations allowed with a permit, such gatherings in Rwanda are rare.

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**Who acts:** protests · **What happens:** allow, be · **To what, where:** freedom, protests

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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 (protests), 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:219
# text = Although the constitution allows freedom of assembly, with protests and demonstrations allowed with a permit, such gatherings in Rwanda are rare.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	permit	permit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present |  | freedom of assembly |  |  |  | although the constitution | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **allow** | participle |  | protests and demonstrations *not said here* |  |  |  | with a permit and such gatherings in Rwanda | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **is** | present | protests and demonstrations |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |

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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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