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title: Its population grew from 5,000 in 1889 to 10,000 in 1910 and 39,530… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: Its population grew from 5,000 in 1889 to 10,000 in 1910 and 39,530 in 1930, with an annual rise of roughly 4,700 people. Who acts: population, 4,700 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 282

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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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Its population grew from 5,000 in 1889 to 10,000 in 1910 and 39,530 in 1930, with an annual rise of roughly 4,700 people.

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**Who acts:** population, 4,700 people · **What happens:** grow, rise · **To what, where:** 5,000

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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 (population, 4,700 people), 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:282
# text = Its population grew from 5,000 in 1889 to 10,000 in 1910 and 39,530 in 1930, with an annual rise of roughly 4,700 people.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	39,530	39,530	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1930	1930	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	4,700	4700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | area's population |  |  | 5,000 |  | in 1889 to 10,000; in 1910; in 1930; a annual rise of 4,700 people *parataxis* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1889=Location |
| 2 | **rise** |  | 4,700 people |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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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