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title: In 1894, explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first European to… — Rwanda · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1894, explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first European to cross the entire territory of Rwanda; he crossed from the south-east to Lake Kivu and met the king. Who acts: 1894 explorer, Conference. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rwanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rwanda, sentence 55

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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 1894, explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first European to cross the entire territory of Rwanda; he crossed from the south-east to Lake Kivu and met the king.

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**Who acts:** 1894 explorer, Conference · **What happens:** be, cross, meet · **To what, where:** entire territory, Lake, south east, king

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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 (1894 explorer, Conference), 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:55
# text = In 1894, explorer Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first European to cross the entire territory of Rwanda; he crossed from the south-east to Lake Kivu and met the king.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1894	1894	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Adolf	Adolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	5	appos	_	_
8	Götzen	Götzen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	Kivu	Kivu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | 1894 explorer |  |  |  |  | european *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | 1894 explorer *not said here* | the entire territory of Rwanda |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Patient |
| 3 | **cross** | past | Conference |  | Lake | the south east |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from east=Initial\_Location to lake=Destination |
| 4 | **meet** | past | Conference *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |

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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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