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title: The national military is the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF), which cons… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: The national military is the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF), which consists of the Rwanda Land Forces, the Rwandan Air Force, and specialized service branches. Who acts: national military, Rwandan Defence Force. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 121

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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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The national military is the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF), which consists of the Rwanda Land Forces, the Rwandan Air Force, and specialized service branches.

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**Who acts:** national military, Rwandan Defence Force · **What happens:** be, consist, specialize · **To what, where:** Rwandan Defence Force, service branches

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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 (national military, Rwandan Defence Force), 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:121
# text = The national military is the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF), which consists of the Rwanda Land Forces, the Rwandan Air Force, and specialized service branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Rwandan	Rwandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	RDF	RDF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Forces	Force	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Rwandan	Rwandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	specialized	specialize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the national military | the Rwandan Defence Force |  |  |  | RDF *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consist** | present | the Rwandan Defence Force |  |  |  |  | of the Rwanda Land Forces and the Rwandan Air Force | tree rules |
| 3 | **specialize** | past | the Rwandan Defence Force | service branches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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