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title: The company was acquired in 2013 by Liquid Telecom, a company provid… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: The company was acquired in 2013 by Liquid Telecom, a company providing telecommunications and fibre-optic networks across eastern and southern Africa. Who acts: Liquid Telecom, company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 266

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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 company was acquired in 2013 by Liquid Telecom, a company providing telecommunications and fibre-optic networks across eastern and southern Africa.

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**Who acts:** Liquid Telecom, company · **What happens:** acquire, provide · **To what, where:** company, 2013, telecommunications, eastern Africa

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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 (Liquid Telecom, company), 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:266
# text = The company was acquired in 2013 by Liquid Telecom, a company providing telecommunications and fibre-optic networks across eastern and southern Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Telecom	Telecom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	telecommunications	telecommunication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	optic	optic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	networks	network	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | past · passive | Liquid Telecom | the company |  | 2013 |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | gerund | a company *not said here* | telecommunications and fibre optic networks |  | eastern Africa |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition telecommunication=Theme |

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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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