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title: The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the D… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the DRC's most prominent and central museum. Who acts: National Museum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 17

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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.

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The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the DRC's most prominent and central museum.

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**Who acts:** National Museum · **What happens:** be

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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 (National Museum), 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:Kinshasa:17
# text = The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the DRC's most prominent and central museum.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	DRC	DRC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |  |  |  |  | the DRC *nsubj*; central museum *conj*; prominent *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, «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.

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