Port Louis, sentence 77
From Wikipedia, «Port Louis», 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.
An effort to move workers from the city centre has already started with the construction of the Ébène office tower complex south of Port Louis.
Who acts: effort · What happens: move, start, construct · To what, where: workers, city centre, tower complex south
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Louis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (effort), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 effort | det |
| 2 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 move | mark |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 effort | acl |
| 5 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 move | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | compound |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | aux |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 started | advmod |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 construction | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 construction | det |
| 15 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 18 | Ébène | Ébène | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 south | nsubj |
| 19 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tower | compound |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 south | compound |
| 21 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 south | amod |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 construction | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Port | case |
| 24 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 south | nmod |
| 25 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Port | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | to-infinitive | a effort not said here | workers | the city centre | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent worker=Theme from centre=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | start | present · perfect | a effort | with the construction of the tower complex south Ébène of Port | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with construction=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | construct | the tower complex south Ébène of Port | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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