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title: Early seasonal rains are absorbed into the soil and do not contribut… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: Early seasonal rains are absorbed into the soil and do not contribute to surface runoff until the retention threshold is surpassed, at which point excess water seeps downward to replenish groundwater reserves. Who acts: excess water. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and 
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# Kinshasa, sentence 205

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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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Early seasonal rains are absorbed into the soil and do not contribute to surface runoff until the retention threshold is surpassed, at which point excess water seeps downward to replenish groundwater reserves.

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**Who acts:** excess water · **What happens:** absorb, not contribute, surpass, point, seep, replenish · **To what, where:** seasonal rains, soil, surface runoff, retention threshold, groundwater reserves

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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 (excess water), 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:205
# text = Early seasonal rains are absorbed into the soil and do not contribute to surface runoff until the retention threshold is surpassed, at which point excess water seeps downward to replenish groundwater reserves.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	contribute	contribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	runoff	runoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	retention	retention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	surpassed	surpass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	excess	excess	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seeps	seep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	replenish	replenish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	groundwater	groundwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absorb** | present · passive |  | seasonal rains |  | the soil |  | early *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **contribute** | present · do-support |  | surface runoff |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent runoff=Theme |
| 3 | **surpass** | present · passive |  | the retention threshold |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **point** | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seep** | present | excess water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **replenish** | to-infinitive | excess water *not said here* | groundwater reserves |  |  |  | downward *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reserve=Destination |

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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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