Addis Ababa, sentence 199
From Wikipedia, «Addis Ababa», 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 city has recently been in a construction boom with tall buildings rising in many places.
Who acts: city, tall buildings · What happens: have, be, rise · To what, where: construction boom, many places
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Addis Ababa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, tall buildings), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 9 boom | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 boom | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 boom | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boom | det |
| 8 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boom | compound |
| 9 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 buildings | case |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 buildings | amod |
| 12 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boom | nmod |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 buildings | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rising | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the city | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | a construction boom | with tall buildings; recently property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | tall buildings not said here | many places | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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