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title: Rivers are the main connection of Kinshasa with much of the country… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: Rivers are the main connection of Kinshasa with much of the country due to the fractured and poor state of the road network, and the limited extent of rail network. Who acts: Rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 599

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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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Rivers are the main connection of Kinshasa with much of the country due to the fractured and poor state of the road network, and the limited extent of rail network.

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**Who acts:** Rivers · **What happens:** be, fracture, extend · **To what, where:** main connection, rail network

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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 (Rivers), 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:599
# text = Rivers are the main connection of Kinshasa with much of the country due to the fractured and poor state of the road network, and the limited extent of rail network.
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Rivers | the main connection and the limited extent of rail network |  |  |  | of Kinshasa; with the fractured state of the road network; the limited extent of rail network *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fracture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **extend** |  |  | rail network |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state 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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