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title: The city has recently been in a construction boom with tall building… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: The city has recently been in a construction boom with tall buildings rising in many places. Who acts: city, tall buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 199

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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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The city has recently been in a construction boom with tall buildings rising in many places.

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**Who acts:** city, tall buildings · **What happens:** have, be, rise · **To what, where:** construction boom, many places

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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 (city, tall buildings), 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:199
# text = The city has recently been in a construction boom with tall buildings rising in many places.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the city |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | a construction boom |  | with tall buildings; recently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | tall buildings *not said here* |  |  | many places |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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