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title: The Malebo Pool extends roughly 35 kilometers long and 25 kilometers… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: The Malebo Pool extends roughly 35 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, bordered by Ngaliema in the west and Maluku in the east, and passes through other communes including Gombe, Barumbu, Limete, Masina, and Nsele. Who acts: Malebo Pool. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency t
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# Kinshasa, sentence 172

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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 Malebo Pool extends roughly 35 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, bordered by Ngaliema in the west and Maluku in the east, and passes through other communes including Gombe, Barumbu, Limete, Masina, and Nsele.

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**Who acts:** Malebo Pool · **What happens:** extend, border, pass, include · **To what, where:** west, Nsele, other communes

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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 (Malebo Pool), 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:172
# text = The Malebo Pool extends roughly 35 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, bordered by Ngaliema in the west and Maluku in the east, and passes through other communes including Gombe, Barumbu, Limete, Masina, and Nsele.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Malebo	Malebo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pool	Pool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	extends	extend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometers	kilometer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	kilometers	kilometer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ngaliema	Ngaliema	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Maluku	Maluku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	communes	commune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	case	_	_
32	Gombe	Gombe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Barumbu	Barumbu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Limete	Limete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Masina	Masina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Nsele	Nsele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | the Malebo Pool |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **border** | participle | the Malebo Pool *not said here* |  |  | the west in the east and Maluku |  | by Ngaliema | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present |  | Nsele |  | other communes include Gombe and Limete and Masina |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through commune=Location |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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