Luanda, sentence 156
From Wikipedia, «Luanda», 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.
Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are undergoing an extensive reconstruction process by the government in order to relieve traffic congestion in the city.
Who acts: roads · What happens: be, undergo, relieve · To what, where: poor state, extensive reconstruction process, order, traffic congestion, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads), 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 | Luanda | Luanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roads | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Luanda | case |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 state | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 state | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 state | amod |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 repair | case |
| 10 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 undergoing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 undergoing | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 undergoing | aux |
| 14 | undergoing | undergo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 state | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 process | det |
| 16 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 process | amod |
| 17 | reconstruction | reconstruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 process | compound |
| 18 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 undergoing | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 government | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 government | det |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 undergoing | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 undergoing | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 relieve | mark |
| 25 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 undergoing | advcl |
| 26 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 congestion | compound |
| 27 | congestion | congestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 relieve | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 city | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 relieve | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Luanda's roads | a poor state | of repair | tree rules | |||
| 2 | undergo | present · progressive | Luanda's roads not said here | a extensive reconstruction process | order | by the government | tree rules | ||
| 3 | relieve | to-infinitive | Luanda's roads not said here | traffic congestion | the city | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus congestion=Experiencer |
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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