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title: Relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo were tense follo… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: Relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo were tense following Rwanda's involvement in the First and Second Congo Wars; the Congolese army alleged Rwandan attacks on their troops, while Rwanda blamed the Congolese government for failing to suppress Hutu rebels in North and South Kivu provi
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# Rwanda, sentence 114

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From Wikipedia, [«Rwanda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda), 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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Relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo were tense following Rwanda's involvement in the First and Second Congo Wars; the Congolese army alleged Rwandan attacks on their troops, while Rwanda blamed the Congolese government for failing to suppress Hutu rebels in North and South Kivu provinces.

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**Who acts:** Relations, Congolese army, Rwanda · **What happens:** be, follow, allege, blame, fail, not suppress · **To what, where:** Rwandan attacks, troops, Congolese government, Hutu rebels, North Kivu provinces, First Congo Wars

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rwanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Relations, Congolese army, Rwanda), 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:Rwanda:114
# text = Relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo were tense following Rwanda's involvement in the First and Second Congo Wars; the Congolese army alleged Rwandan attacks on their troops, while Rwanda blamed the Congolese government for failing to suppress Hutu rebels in North and South Kivu provinces.
1	Relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	tense	tense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
12	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	involvement	involvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	conj	_	_
20	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	alleged	allege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	Rwandan	Rwandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Congolese	congolese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	suppress	suppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	Hutu	Hutu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	Kivu	Kivu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo |  |  |  |  | follow Rwanda's involvement in the First Congo Wars; the Congolese army *conj*; tense *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **allege** *speech: other* | participle | the Congolese army *not said here* | Rwandan attacks |  | relations's troops |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent attack=Topic |
| 4 | **blame** | past | Rwanda | the Congolese government |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme |
| 5 | **fail** | gerund | Rwanda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **suppress** | to-infinitive | Rwanda *not said here* | Hutu rebels |  | North Kivu provinces |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rebel=Patient in province=Location |
| 7 | **involve** |  | Rwanda |  |  | the First Congo Wars |  |  | nom involvement «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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, «Rwanda», 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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