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title: During the dry season, rivers are primarily fed by these underground… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: During the dry season, rivers are primarily fed by these underground aquifers, which are recharged during the rainy season. Who acts: underground aquifers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 204

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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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During the dry season, rivers are primarily fed by these underground aquifers, which are recharged during the rainy season.

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**Who acts:** underground aquifers · **What happens:** feed, recharge · **To what, where:** rivers, underground aquifers

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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 (underground aquifers), 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:204
# text = During the dry season, rivers are primarily fed by these underground aquifers, which are recharged during the rainy season.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	aquifers	aquifer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	recharged	recharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present · passive | this underground aquifers | rivers |  |  | season | primarily *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **recharge** | present · passive |  | this underground aquifers |  |  | season |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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