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title: This legal evolution culminated in Ordinance No. 68/024 of 20 Januar… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
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# Kinshasa, sentence 323

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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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This legal evolution culminated in Ordinance No. 68/024 of 20 January 1968, which granted Kinshasa the same politico-administrative status comparable to that of the provinces, thus expanding its communal subdivisions from 11 to 24.

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**Who acts:** legal evolution, provinces · **What happens:** culminate, grant, expand · **To what, where:** legal evolution, same administrative status, Kinshasa, communal subdivisions, 11

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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 (legal evolution, provinces), 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:323
# text = This legal evolution culminated in Ordinance No. 68/024 of 20 January 1968, which granted Kinshasa the same politico-administrative status comparable to that of the provinces, thus expanding its communal subdivisions from 11 to 24.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	culminated	culminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ordinance	Ordinance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	68/024	68/024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	politico	politico	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
23	comparable	comparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	communal	communal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	subdivisions	subdivision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **culminate** | participle |  | legal evolution  This *not said here* |  |  | january | Ordinance *obl:agent* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** | past | legal evolution  This | the same administrative status | Kinshasa |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent kinshasa=Goal status=Theme |
| 3 | **expand** | gerund | the provinces *not said here* | status's communal subdivisions |  | 11 to 24 |  | thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subdivision=Patient |

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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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