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title: The city is often the starting point of the Tour of Eritrea cycling… — Asmara · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is often the starting point of the Tour of Eritrea cycling competition. Who acts: city, starting point. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asmara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Asmara, sentence 70

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From Wikipedia, [«Asmara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmara), 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 is often the starting point of the Tour of Eritrea cycling competition.

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**Who acts:** city, starting point · **What happens:** be, cycle · **To what, where:** starting point, competition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asmara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, starting point), 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:Asmara:70
# text = The city is often the starting point of the Tour of Eritrea cycling competition.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tour	Tour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	cycling	cycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
14	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the city | the starting point |  |  |  | of the Tour of Eritrea; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cycle** | gerund | the starting point *not said here* | competition |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme competition=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, «Asmara», 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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