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# Kinshasa, sentence 505

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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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Kinshasa serves as the nation's principal media hub, hosting the largest concentration of media outlets in the country.

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**Who acts:** Kinshasa · **What happens:** serve, host · **To what, where:** largest concentration, country

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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 (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:505
# text = Kinshasa serves as the nation's principal media hub, hosting the largest concentration of media outlets in the country.
1	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hosting	host	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | Kinshasa |  |  |  |  | as the nation's principal media hub | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hub=Attribute |
| 2 | **host** | gerund | Kinshasa *not said here* | the largest concentration of media outlets |  | the country |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concentration=Beneficiary |

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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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