Lomé, sentence 2
From Wikipedia, «Lomé», 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.
It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census.
Who acts: city, 2,188,376 permanent residents · What happens: have, be · To what, where: urban population
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, 2,188,376 permanent residents), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 population | det |
| 4 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 population | amod |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 837,437 | case |
| 7 | 837,437 | 837,437 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 population | nmod |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 were | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | advcl |
| 11 | 2,188,376 | 2,188,376 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 residents | nummod |
| 12 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 residents | amod |
| 13 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 area | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 area | nmod:poss |
| 16 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 area | compound |
| 17 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 residents | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 census | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 census | det |
| 21 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 census | nummod |
| 22 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 area | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | city | a urban population of 837,437 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | past | 2,188,376 permanent residents in city's metropolitan area as the 2022 census | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, «Lomé», 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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