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title: Internet penetration is low but rising rapidly; in 2015 there were 1… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: Internet penetration is low but rising rapidly; in 2015 there were 12.8 internet users per 100 people, up from 2.1 in 2007. Who acts: Internet penetration, 12.8 internet users. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 272

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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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Internet penetration is low but rising rapidly; in 2015 there were 12.8 internet users per 100 people, up from 2.1 in 2007.

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**Who acts:** Internet penetration, 12.8 internet users · **What happens:** be, rise · **To what, where:** 2015

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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 (Internet penetration, 12.8 internet users), 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:272
# text = Internet penetration is low but rising rapidly; in 2015 there were 12.8 internet users per 100 people, up from 2.1 in 2007.
1	Internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penetration	penetration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	12.8	12.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
16	per	per	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2.1	2.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	15	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	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 | **is** | present | Internet penetration |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | Internet penetration *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | 12.8 internet users per 100 people |  |  | 2015; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2015=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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