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title: In 2015, Kinshasa was designated as a City of Music by UNESCO and ha… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2015, Kinshasa was designated as a City of Music by UNESCO and has been a member of the Creative Cities Network since then. Who acts: UNESCO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 21

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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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In 2015, Kinshasa was designated as a City of Music by UNESCO and has been a member of the Creative Cities Network since then.

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**Who acts:** UNESCO · **What happens:** designate, be · **To what, where:** Kinshasa, 2015, member

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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 (UNESCO), 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:21
# text = In 2015, Kinshasa was designated as a City of Music by UNESCO and has been a member of the Creative Cities Network since then.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Music	Music	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Creative	creative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Cities	City	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	Network	Network	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | past · passive | UNESCO | Kinshasa |  | 2015 |  | as a City of Music | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as city=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present · perfect | UNESCO *not said here* | a member |  |  |  | of the Creative Cities Network | 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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