Abuja, sentence 78
From Wikipedia, «Abuja», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Garki District is the area in the southwest corner of the city, having the Central District to the north and the Asokoro District to the east.
Who acts: Garki District, area · What happens: be, have · To what, where: area, southwest corner, Central District
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abuja». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Garki District, area), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 District | det |
| 2 | Garki | Garki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 District | compound |
| 3 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 area | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 area | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 area | det |
| 6 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 9 | southwest | southwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | compound |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 area | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 area | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 District | det |
| 17 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 District | flat |
| 18 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 north | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 District | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 District | det |
| 24 | Asokoro | Asokoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 District | compound |
| 25 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 north | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 east | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 east | det |
| 28 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Garki District | the area | the southwest corner of the city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | the area not said here | the Central District | to the north and the Asokoro District; to the east | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Patient |
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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