Dakar, sentence 72
From Wikipedia, «Dakar», 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.
Dakar has a large Lebanese community (concentrated in the import-export sector) that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan businesspeople, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities.
Who acts: Dakar, large Lebanese community · What happens: have, concentrate, export, date · To what, where: large Lebanese community, export sector
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakar, large Lebanese community), 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 | Dakar | Dakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 community | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 community | amod |
| 5 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 community | amod |
| 6 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 concentrated | punct |
| 8 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 community | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sector | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sector | det |
| 11 | import | import | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 export | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 import | punct |
| 13 | export | export | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sector | amod |
| 14 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concentrated | obl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 concentrated | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 dates | nsubj |
| 17 | dates | date | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 community | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1920s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1920s | det |
| 20 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 dates | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 community | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 community | det |
| 23 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 1920s | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 businesspeople | case |
| 25 | Moroccan | moroccan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 businesspeople | amod |
| 26 | businesspeople | businessperson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 community | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mauritanian | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 31 Mauritanian | cc |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 as | fixed |
| 31 | Mauritanian | Mauritanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 businesspeople | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Verdean | punct |
| 33 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Verdean | flat |
| 34 | Verdean | Verdean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mauritanian | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 communities | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 communities | cc |
| 37 | Guinean | guinean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 communities | amod |
| 38 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Dakar | a large Lebanese community | Guinean communities conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient | |||
| 2 | concentrate | participle | a large Lebanese community not said here | the export sector | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | export | participle | import compound | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | date | present | a large Lebanese community | to the 1920s and a community of Moroccan businesspeople Mauritanian and Cape Verdean | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
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