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title: Food processing is a major industry, and construction and other serv… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: Food processing is a major industry, and construction and other service industries also play a significant role in the economy. Who acts: Food processing, construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 387

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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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Food processing is a major industry, and construction and other service industries also play a significant role in the economy.

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**Who acts:** Food processing, construction · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** major industry, significant role, economy

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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 (Food processing, construction), 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:387
# text = Food processing is a major industry, and construction and other service industries also play a significant role in the economy.
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	processing	processing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Food processing | a major industry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | construction and other service industries | a significant role |  | the economy |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |

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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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