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title: The commune is characterized by panoramic views of the Congo River a… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: The commune is characterized by panoramic views of the Congo River and Ngaliema Bay, centuries-old trees, and its numerous heritage sites. Who acts: panoramic views. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 402

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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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The commune is characterized by panoramic views of the Congo River and Ngaliema Bay, centuries-old trees, and its numerous heritage sites.

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**Who acts:** panoramic views · **What happens:** characterize, view · **To what, where:** commune, Congo River

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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 (panoramic views), 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:402
# text = The commune is characterized by panoramic views of the Congo River and Ngaliema Bay, centuries-old trees, and its numerous heritage sites.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	commune	commune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	panoramic	panoramic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Ngaliema	Ngaliema	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characterize** | present · passive | panoramic views of the Congo River  centuries and old trees and Ngaliema Bay | the commune |  |  |  | area's numerous heritage sites *conj* | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **view** |  |  | the Congo River  centuries and old trees and Ngaliema Bay |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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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