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title: On Genocide Memorial Day, a national holiday observed every year on… — Kigali · tree and pragmatics
description: On Genocide Memorial Day, a national holiday observed every year on 7 April, the Kigali Genocide Memorial hosts Kwibuka, during which the president lights a "flame of hope" and addresses the nation. Who acts: Kigali Genocide Memorial, president, hope. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kigali» with its depe
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# Kigali, sentence 253

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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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On Genocide Memorial Day, a national holiday observed every year on 7 April, the Kigali Genocide Memorial hosts Kwibuka, during which the president lights a "flame of hope" and addresses the nation.

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**Who acts:** Kigali Genocide Memorial, president, hope · **What happens:** observe, host, light, address, flame · **To what, where:** national holiday, 7, Kwibuka, flame, nation

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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 (Kigali Genocide Memorial, president, hope), 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:253
# text = On Genocide Memorial Day, a national holiday observed every year on 7 April, the Kigali Genocide Memorial hosts Kwibuka, during which the president lights a "flame of hope" and addresses the nation.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Genocide	Genocide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Memorial	Memorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Kigali	Kigali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Genocide	Genocide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Memorial	Memorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Kwibuka	Kwibuka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	addresses	address	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | participle |  | a national holiday *not said here* |  | 7  April | year |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **host** | present | the Kigali Genocide Memorial |  | Kwibuka |  | on Genocide Memorial Day |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kwibuka=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **light** | present | the president | a flame of hope |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Product |
| 4 | **address** | present | the Kigali Genocide Memorial *not said here* | the nation |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Destination |
| 5 | **flame** *in a quote* |  | hope |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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