Bangui, sentence 181
From Wikipedia, «Bangui», 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 river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade and has a cargo handling capacity of 350,000 tons; it has 350 m length of wharfs and 24000 m2 of warehousing space.
Who acts: river port, cargo, port, country · What happens: handle, have, trade · To what, where: overwhelming majority, cargo, capacity, m length
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangui». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river port, cargo, port, country), 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 port | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 port | compound |
| 3 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handles | nsubj |
| 4 | handles | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 majority | det |
| 6 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 majority | amod |
| 7 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handles | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trade | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trade | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 country | case |
| 12 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trade | amod |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 majority | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 handles | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cargo | det |
| 17 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | handling | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 cargo | acl |
| 19 | capacity | capacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 handling | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tons | case |
| 21 | 350,000 | 350000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 tons | nummod |
| 22 | tons | ton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 capacity | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 handles | conj |
| 26 | 350 | 350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 m | compound |
| 27 | m | million | NUM | Abbr=Yes NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 length | nummod |
| 28 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wharfs | case |
| 30 | wharfs | wharf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 length | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 m2 | cc |
| 32 | 24000 | 24000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 m2 | compound |
| 33 | m2 | m2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 length | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 space | case |
| 35 | warehousing | warehousing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 space | compound |
| 36 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 m2 | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handle | present | the river port | the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the river port not said here | a cargo | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | handle | gerund | a cargo not said here | capacity of 350,000 tons | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capacity=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | port | m length of wharfs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trade | the country | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bangui», 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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