--- title: A major crackdown happened on 28 October 2000, when President Kabila… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics description: A major crackdown happened on 28 October 2000, when President Kabila's security forces arrested at least 93 people, including 60 soldiers and 33 civilians from North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema, accused of plotting a coup d'état involving Anselme Masasu Nindaga, a founding AFDL member; some detain --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/157/) [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/) / 157 # Kinshasa, sentence 157 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. A major crackdown happened on 28 October 2000, when President Kabila's security forces arrested at least 93 people, including 60 soldiers and 33 civilians from North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema, accused of plotting a coup d'état involving Anselme Masasu Nindaga, a founding AFDL member; some detainees were summarily executed or tortured to death, while others were imprisoned for over three years and only released following a government-issued general amnesty. **Who acts:** major crackdown, coup d'état · **What happens:** happen, arrest, include, accuse, plot, involve · **To what, where:** 28, security forces, North Kivu, coup d'état, Anselme, detainees 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 (major crackdown, coup d'état), 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:157 # text = A major crackdown happened on 28 October 2000, when President Kabila's security forces arrested at least 93 people, including 60 soldiers and 33 civilians from North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema, accused of plotting a coup d'état involving Anselme Masasu Nindaga, a founding AFDL member; some detainees were summarily executed or tortured to death, while others were imprisoned for over three years and only released following a government-issued general amnesty. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crackdown crackdown NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 11 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Kabila Kabila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 security security NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 nmod _ _ 19 93 93 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 case _ _ 23 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 civilians civilian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Kivu Kivu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 Kivu Kivu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Maniema Maniema PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 39 of of SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 plotting plot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 coup coup NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 d'état d'état NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 involving involve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 acl _ _ 45 Anselme Anselme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 Masasu Masasu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ _ 47 Nindaga Nindaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 50 founding found VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 amod _ _ 51 AFDL AFDL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 54 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 55 det _ _ 55 detainees detainee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 56 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 57 summarily summarily ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 59 or or CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 tortured torture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 conj _ _ 61 to to ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 64 while while SCONJ IN _ 67 mark _ _ 65 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 nsubj:pass _ _ 66 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 67 aux:pass _ _ 67 imprisoned imprison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 conj _ _ 68 for for ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 over over ADV RB _ 70 advmod _ _ 70 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 71 nummod _ _ 71 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 obl _ _ 72 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 73 only only ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 74 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 conj _ _ 75 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 74 advcl _ _ 76 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 77 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 78 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 77 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 issued issue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 81 amod _ _ 80 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 81 amod _ _ 81 amnesty amnesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | a major crackdown | | | 28 October 2000 | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 28=Location | | 2 | **arrest** | participle · passive | | Kabila President's security forces | | North Kivu and South and Maniema | | 93 people and 60 soldiers and 33 civilians *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accuse** | participle | | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plot** | gerund | | a coup d'état | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d'état=Theme | | 6 | **involve** | gerund | a coup d'état *not said here* | Anselme | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anselme=Theme | | 7 | **found** | gerund | | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **execute** | past · passive | | some detainees | | | | summarily *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **torture** | participle | | | | | | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **imprison** | past · passive | | others | | | year | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 11 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 12 | **follow** | gerund | | a issued general amnesty | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amnesty=Theme | | 13 | **issue** | participle | | | | | | government *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/156/) - next →: [sentence 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/158/) - ↑ back to [Kinshasa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kinshasa/)