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title: In 2009 a new brewery, Brasseries des Mille Collines (BMC) opened, m… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009 a new brewery, Brasseries des Mille Collines (BMC) opened, manufacturing Skol beer and a local version known as Skol Gatanu; BMC is now owned by Belgian company Unibra. Who acts: Mille Collines, Belgian company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 459

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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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In 2009 a new brewery, Brasseries des Mille Collines (BMC) opened, manufacturing Skol beer and a local version known as Skol Gatanu; BMC is now owned by Belgian company Unibra.

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**Who acts:** Mille Collines, Belgian company · **What happens:** open, manufacture, know, own · **To what, where:** 2009, Skol beer, local version, BMC

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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 (Mille Collines, Belgian 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:459
# text = In 2009 a new brewery, Brasseries des Mille Collines (BMC) opened, manufacturing Skol beer and a local version known as Skol Gatanu; BMC is now owned by Belgian company Unibra.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brewery	brewery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Brasseries	Brasseries	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	des	Des	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Mille	Mille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Collines	Colline	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	BMC	BMC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	manufacturing	manufacture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	Skol	Skol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Skol	Skol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	Gatanu	Gatanu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	BMC	BMC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:agent	_	_
35	Unibra	Unibra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Mille Collines |  |  | 2009  a new brewery |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 2009=Location |
| 2 | **manufacture** | gerund | Mille Collines *not said here* | Skol beer and a local version |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Result |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | a local version *not said here* |  |  |  | as Skol | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as skol=Attribute |
| 4 | **own** | present · passive | Belgian company | BMC |  |  | now |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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