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title: Despite having few natural resources and being semi-desert, the coun… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite having few natural resources and being semi-desert, the country has the highest living standards in the region and has attracted thousands of immigrants of different nationalities. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 195

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), 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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Despite having few natural resources and being semi-desert, the country has the highest living standards in the region and has attracted thousands of immigrants of different nationalities.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** have, be, attract · **To what, where:** few natural resources, semi-desert, highest living standards, region, thousands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Cape_Verde:195
# text = Despite having few natural resources and being semi-desert, the country has the highest living standards in the region and has attracted thousands of immigrants of different nationalities.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	semi-desert	semi-desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
15	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the country *not said here* | few natural resources |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | the country *not said here* | semi-desert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the country | the highest living standards |  | the region |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient |
| 4 | **attract** | present · perfect | the country *not said here* | thousands of immigrants of different nationalities |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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, «Cape Verde», 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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