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title: It has an elevation of 1500 to 2500 m. The centre of the country is… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: It has an elevation of 1500 to 2500 m. The centre of the country is predominantly rolling hills, while the eastern border region consists of savanna, plains and swamps. Who acts: point, centre, eastern border region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 165

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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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It has an elevation of 1500 to 2500 m. The centre of the country is predominantly rolling hills, while the eastern border region consists of savanna, plains and swamps.

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**Who acts:** point, centre, eastern border region · **What happens:** have, roll, consist, elevate · **To what, where:** elevation, hills, 1500 m.

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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 (point, centre, eastern border region), 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:165
# text = It has an elevation of 1500 to 2500 m. The centre of the country is predominantly rolling hills, while the eastern border region consists of savanna, plains and swamps.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	m.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | point | a elevation of 1500 m. |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elevation=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | present · progressive | the centre of the country | hills |  |  |  | predominantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent |
| 3 | **consist** | present | the eastern border region |  |  |  |  | of savanna and plains and swamps | tree rules |
| 4 | **elevate** |  |  | 1500 m. |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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