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title: The river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's in… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: The river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade and has a cargo handling capacity of 350,000 tons; it has 350 m length of wharfs and 24000 m2 of warehousing space. Who acts: river port, cargo, port, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» with its dependency
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# Bangui, sentence 181

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From Wikipedia, [«Bangui»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangui), 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 river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade and has a cargo handling capacity of 350,000 tons; it has 350 m length of wharfs and 24000 m2 of warehousing space.

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**Who acts:** river port, cargo, port, country · **What happens:** handle, have, trade · **To what, where:** overwhelming majority, cargo, capacity, m length

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangui». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river port, cargo, port, country), 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:Bangui:181
# text = The river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade and has a cargo handling capacity of 350,000 tons; it has 350 m length of wharfs and 24000 m2 of warehousing space.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	handles	handle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	handling	handle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	350,000	350000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	350	350	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	m	million	NUM	CD	Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	wharfs	wharf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	24000	24000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
33	m2	m2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	warehousing	warehousing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** | present | the river port | the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the river port *not said here* | a cargo |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Patient |
| 3 | **handle** | gerund | a cargo *not said here* | capacity of 350,000 tons |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capacity=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | port | m length of wharfs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Patient |
| 5 | **trade** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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, «Bangui», 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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