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title: University Avenue provides access to the southern parts of the city… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: University Avenue provides access to the southern parts of the city and is about 10 km long. Who acts: University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 572

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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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University Avenue provides access to the southern parts of the city and is about 10 km long.

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**Who acts:** University · **What happens:** provide, be · **To what, where:** access, southern parts

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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 (University), 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:572
# text = University Avenue provides access to the southern parts of the city and is about 10 km long.
1	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present | University | access | the southern parts of the city |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Theme to part=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | University *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 10 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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