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title: The country's longest river is the Nyabarongo, which rises in the so… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's longest river is the Nyabarongo, which rises in the south-west, flows north, east, and southeast before merging with the Ruvubu to form the Kagera; the Kagera then flows due north along the eastern border with Tanzania. Who acts: longest river, Nyabarongo, southeast, Kagera. A sentence
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# Rwanda, sentence 157

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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 country's longest river is the Nyabarongo, which rises in the south-west, flows north, east, and southeast before merging with the Ruvubu to form the Kagera; the Kagera then flows due north along the eastern border with Tanzania.

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**Who acts:** longest river, Nyabarongo, southeast, Kagera · **What happens:** be, rise, flow, merge, form · **To what, where:** Nyabarongo, south west, Kagera, eastern border

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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 (longest river, Nyabarongo, southeast, Kagera), 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:157
# text = The country's longest river is the Nyabarongo, which rises in the south-west, flows north, east, and southeast before merging with the Ruvubu to form the Kagera; the Kagera then flows due north along the eastern border with Tanzania.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Nyabarongo	Nyabarongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	north	north	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	east	east	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	merging	merge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Ruvubu	Ruvubu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Kagera	Kagera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Kagera	Kagera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
39	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	north	north	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	along	along	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 country's longest river | the Nyabarongo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the Nyabarongo |  |  | the south west |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location |
| 3 | **flow** | present | the Nyabarongo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | southeast *conj*; east, north *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **merge** | gerund | southeast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Ruvubu | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ruvubu=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **form** | to-infinitive | southeast *not said here* | the Kagera |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kagera=Theme |
| 6 | **flow** | present | the Kagera |  |  | the eastern border with Tanzania | then | due *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along border=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, «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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