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title: In contrast to other diasporic groups, the Zombo showed a strong ten… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: In contrast to other diasporic groups, the Zombo showed a strong tendency toward integration and avoided repatriation while raising successive generations in Kinshasa, where they became culturally and linguistically assimilated. Who acts: Zombo, Kinshasa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with it
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# Kinshasa, sentence 311

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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 contrast to other diasporic groups, the Zombo showed a strong tendency toward integration and avoided repatriation while raising successive generations in Kinshasa, where they became culturally and linguistically assimilated.

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**Who acts:** Zombo, Kinshasa · **What happens:** show, avoid, raise, become, assimilate · **To what, where:** strong tendency, repatriation, successive generations, Kinshasa

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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 (Zombo, Kinshasa), 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:311
# text = In contrast to other diasporic groups, the Zombo showed a strong tendency toward integration and avoided repatriation while raising successive generations in Kinshasa, where they became culturally and linguistically assimilated.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	diasporic	diasporic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Zombo	Zombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	integration	integration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	repatriation	repatriation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	culturally	culturally	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	linguistically	linguistically	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	assimilated	assimilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the Zombo | a strong tendency |  |  |  | toward integration; in contrast to other diasporic groups | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tendency=Patient in contrast=Topic |
| 2 | **avoid** | past | the Zombo *not said here* | repatriation |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent repatriation=Location |
| 3 | **raise** | gerund | the Zombo *not said here* | successive generations |  | Kinshasa |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent generation=Theme in kinshasa=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | past | Kinshasa |  |  |  |  | culturally *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **assimilate** | participle | Kinshasa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | linguistically *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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