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title: The city has a high human development index, and is known for its vi… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 23

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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 a high human development index, and is known for its vibrant culture, strong fashion scene, high civic and political involvement of younger people, a thriving arts scene, and for being the heart of a country with one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have, know, thrive, be, involve · **To what, where:** high human development index, arts, younger people

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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), 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:23
# text = The city has a high human development index, and is known for its vibrant culture, strong fashion scene, high civic and political involvement of younger people, a thriving arts scene, and for being the heart of a country with one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	vibrant	vibrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	civic	civic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	involvement	involvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	compound	_	_
33	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	amod	_	_
49	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	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 | a high human development index |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent index=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive | the city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for city's vibrant culture and strong fashion scene and high civic involvement of younger people and a thriving scene; with one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **thrive** | gerund |  | arts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the heart; of a country | tree rules |
| 5 | **involve** |  |  | younger people |  |  |  |  | nom involvement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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