Nouakchott, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Nouakchott», 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.
Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few tall buildings.
What happens: owe, spread out · To what, where: rapid build up, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». 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 | Owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spread | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 up | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 up | det |
| 4 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 up | amod |
| 5 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 up | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | punct |
| 7 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Owing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | aux:pass |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 spread | advmod |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spread | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buildings | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 buildings | case |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 buildings | amod |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 buildings | amod |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spread | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | gerund | to the rapid build up goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to up=Goal | |||||
| 2 | spread out | present · passive | the city | with few tall buildings | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with building=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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