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title: After its completion, the station began to transform, with the erect… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: After its completion, the station began to transform, with the erection of prefabricated residences known as "Danish houses", which were imported from Belgium. Who acts: station, link. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 70

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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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After its completion, the station began to transform, with the erection of prefabricated residences known as "Danish houses", which were imported from Belgium.

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**Who acts:** station, link · **What happens:** begin, transform, know, import, complete, erect · **To what, where:** erection, prefabricated residences, Danish houses, Belgium

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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 (station, link), 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:70
# text = After its completion, the station began to transform, with the erection of prefabricated residences known as "Danish houses", which were imported from Belgium.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	completion	completion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	transform	transform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	erection	erection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	prefabricated	prefabricated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	residences	residence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the station |  |  |  | after link's completion |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **transform** | to-infinitive | the station *not said here* | the erection of prefabricated residences |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent erection=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | prefabricated residences *not said here* |  |  |  | as Danish houses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute |
| 4 | **import** | past · passive |  | Danish houses |  | Belgium |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from belgium=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **complete** |  | link |  |  |  |  |  | nom completion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **erect** |  |  | prefabricated residences |  |  |  |  | nom erection «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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