Maputo, sentence 7
From Wikipedia, «Maputo», 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.
Maputo was formerly named Lourenço Marques (lo(w)ˈɾẽsu ˈmaɾkɨʃ; until 1976).
What happens: name · To what, where: Maputo
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maputo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Maputo | Maputo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 4 named | advmod |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Lourenço | Lourenço | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marques | compound |
| 6 | Marques | marque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 named | xcomp |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 8 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 Marques | discourse |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 ˈmaɾkɨʃ | punct |
| 10 | w | w | INTJ | _ | 13 ˈmaɾkɨʃ | discourse |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 w | punct |
| 12 | ˈɾẽsu | ˈɾẽsu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ˈmaɾkɨʃ | compound |
| 13 | ˈmaɾkɨʃ | ˈmaɾkɨʃ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lo | vocative |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 1976 | punct |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 1976 | case |
| 16 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 named | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 1976 | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Maputo | until 1976 | Lourenço Marques xcomp; formerly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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