Port Louis, sentence 78
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.
A ring road passing on the east side of Port Louis is also expected to reduce congestion.
Who acts: ring road · What happens: pass, expect, reduce · To what, where: east side, ring road, congestion
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 (ring road), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 road | compound |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 road | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Louis | case |
| 10 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Louis | compound |
| 11 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 expected | aux:pass |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 expected | advmod |
| 14 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 reduce | mark |
| 16 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 expected | xcomp |
| 17 | congestion | congestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reduce | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | a ring road not said here | the east side of Port Louis | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | expect | present · passive | a ring road | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | a ring road not said here | congestion | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer congestion=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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