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title: The name was changed to Kinshasa in 1966 during Mobutu Sese Seko's Z… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: The name was changed to Kinshasa in 1966 during Mobutu Sese Seko's Zairianisation campaign as a tribute to Nshasa village. Who acts: Mobutu Sese Seko. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 8

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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 name was changed to Kinshasa in 1966 during Mobutu Sese Seko's Zairianisation campaign as a tribute to Nshasa village.

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**Who acts:** Mobutu Sese Seko · **What happens:** change, campaign · **To what, where:** name, Kinshasa, 1966

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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 (Mobutu Sese Seko), 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:8
# text = The name was changed to Kinshasa in 1966 during Mobutu Sese Seko's Zairianisation campaign as a tribute to Nshasa village.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	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	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	Mobutu	Mobutu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Sese	Sese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Seko	Seko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Zairianisation	Zairianisation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Nshasa	Nshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive |  | the name | Kinshasa | 1966 | during Mobutu Sese Seko's Zairianisation campaign as a tribute to Nshasa village |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **campaign** |  | Mobutu Sese Seko |  |  |  |  | as a tribute to Nshasa village | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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