Luanda, sentence 4
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 and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil.
Who acts: metropolitan area, populous · What happens: speak, be, city · To what, where: populous speaking national capital, world, Luanda · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (metropolitan area, populous), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 capital | cc |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 area | nmod:poss |
| 4 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 area | compound |
| 5 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 capital | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 capital | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 populous | advmod |
| 9 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 capital | amod |
| 10 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speaking | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portuguese | punct |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 capital | amod |
| 13 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 capital | amod |
| 14 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Luanda | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 city | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 populous | advmod |
| 21 | populous | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 city | nsubj |
| 22 | Lusophone | Lusophone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 city | compound |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Luanda | conj |
| 24 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 25 Brazil | case |
| 25 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 city | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luanda | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | centre's metropolitan area | the populous speaking national capital | the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | city | populous | outside Brazil | tree rules |
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, «Luanda», 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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