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title: There are taxi-motos (motorcycle taxis) and taxis-vélos (bicycle tax… — Bujumbura · tree and pragmatics
description: There are taxi-motos (motorcycle taxis) and taxis-vélos (bicycle taxis), although they are only available in certain parts of the city. Who acts: taxi motos, motos. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bujumbura» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bujumbura, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Bujumbura»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujumbura), 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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There are taxi-motos (motorcycle taxis) and taxis-vélos (bicycle taxis), although they are only available in certain parts of the city.

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**Who acts:** taxi motos, motos · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** certain parts

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bujumbura». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taxi motos, motos), 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:Bujumbura:120
# text = There are taxi-motos (motorcycle taxis) and taxis-vélos (bicycle taxis), although they are only available in certain parts of the city.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	motos	moto	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	motorcycle	motorcycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	taxis	taxi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	taxis	taxis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	vélos	vélo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	taxis	taxi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | taxi motos and taxis vélos |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | motos *= moto* |  |  | certain parts of the city |  | available *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Bujumbura», 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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