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title: It is a relatively clean and safe city, with the most common crimes… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a relatively clean and safe city, with the most common crimes being pickpocketing, scams and minor burglary. Who acts: land, common crimes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 198

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From Wikipedia, [«Addis Ababa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It is a relatively clean and safe city, with the most common crimes being pickpocketing, scams and minor burglary.

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**Who acts:** land, common crimes · **What happens:** be, pickpocket · **To what, where:** clean city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Addis Ababa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, common crimes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Addis_Ababa:198
# text = It is a relatively clean and safe city, with the most common crimes being pickpocketing, scams and minor burglary.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	pickpocketing	pickpocket	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	burglary	burglary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | land | a clean city |  |  |  | scams and minor burglary *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pickpocket** | gerund · progressive | the common crimes |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Addis Ababa», 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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