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title: The city was named Léopoldville by Henry Morton Stanley in honor of… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: The city was named Léopoldville by Henry Morton Stanley in honor of Leopold II of Belgium. Who acts: Henry Morton. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 7

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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 city was named Léopoldville by Henry Morton Stanley in honor of Leopold II of Belgium.

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**Who acts:** Henry Morton · **What happens:** name, honor · **To what, where:** city, honor, Leopold

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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 (Henry Morton), 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:7
# text = The city was named Léopoldville by Henry Morton Stanley in honor of Leopold II of Belgium.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Léopoldville	Léopoldville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Morton	Morton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Stanley	Stanley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Leopold	Leopold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive | Henry Morton | the city |  | honor of Leopold of Belgium |  | Léopoldville *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **honor** |  |  | Leopold of Belgium |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication 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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