--- title: Members of opposition parties such as the UDPS and PALU were particu… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics description: Members of opposition parties such as the UDPS and PALU were particularly targeted, often detained in notorious facilities including the Police d'intervention rapide (PIR), the Direction des renseignements généraux et services spéciaux (DRGS, also called Kin Mazière), IPKIN (ex-Circo), and Kokolo Mi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/156/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Kinshasa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/) / 156 # Kinshasa, sentence 156 From Wikipedia, [«Kinshasa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa), 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. Members of opposition parties such as the UDPS and PALU were particularly targeted, often detained in notorious facilities including the Police d'intervention rapide (PIR), the Direction des renseignements généraux et services spéciaux (DRGS, also called Kin Mazière), IPKIN (ex-Circo), and Kokolo Military Camp. **Who acts:** Direction · **What happens:** target, detain, include, de, call · **To what, where:** Members, notorious facilities, renseignements, DRGS · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kinshasa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Direction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Kinshasa:156 # text = Members of opposition parties such as the UDPS and PALU were particularly targeted, often detained in notorious facilities including the Police d'intervention rapide (PIR), the Direction des renseignements généraux et services spéciaux (DRGS, also called Kin Mazière), IPKIN (ex-Circo), and Kokolo Military Camp. 1 Members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 UDPS UDPS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 PALU PALU PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 12 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 targeted target VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 detained detain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 notorious notorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 facilities facility NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Police Police PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 d'intervention d'intervention NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 rapide rapide NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 PIR PIR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Direction Direction PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 des de VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 renseignements renseignement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 généraux généraux X FW Foreign=Yes 32 conj _ _ 34 et et X FW Foreign=Yes 32 appos _ _ 35 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 36 spéciaux spéciaux NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 list _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 DRGS DRGS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 also also ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 42 Kin Kin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 xcomp _ _ 43 Mazière Mazière PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 IPKIN IPKIN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ex-Circo ex-Circo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 Kokolo Kokolo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 Military Military PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 Camp Camp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **target** | past · passive | | Members of opposition parties such the UDPS and PALU | | | | particularly *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **detain** | participle | | | | notorious facilities include the Police d'intervention rapide | | often *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **de** | present | the Direction | renseignements and services spéciaux | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | participle | | DRGS and IPKIN and Kokolo Military Camp *not said here* | | | | Kin *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kinshasa», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/157/) - ↑ back to [Kinshasa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/)