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title: Covering 9,965 square kilometers, Kinshasa stretches along the south… — Kinshasa · tree and pragmatics
description: Covering 9,965 square kilometers, Kinshasa stretches along the southern shores of the Pool Malebo on the Congo River. Who acts: Kinshasa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kinshasa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kinshasa, sentence 9

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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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Covering 9,965 square kilometers, Kinshasa stretches along the southern shores of the Pool Malebo on the Congo River.

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**Who acts:** Kinshasa · **What happens:** cover, stretch · **To what, where:** 9,965 square kilometers, southern shores

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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 (Kinshasa), 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:9
# text = Covering 9,965 square kilometers, Kinshasa stretches along the southern shores of the Pool Malebo on the Congo River.
1	Covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	9,965	9,965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kilometers	kilometer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Pool	Pool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Malebo	Malebo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund |  | 9,965 square kilometers |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometer=Destination |
| 2 | **stretch** | present | Kinshasa |  |  | the southern shores of the Pool Malebo on the Congo River |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location |

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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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