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title: Mindelo on São Vicente is the main port for cruise ships and the ter… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: Mindelo on São Vicente is the main port for cruise ships and the terminus for the ferry service to Santo Antão. Who acts: Mindelo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 361

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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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Mindelo on São Vicente is the main port for cruise ships and the terminus for the ferry service to Santo Antão.

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**Who acts:** Mindelo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** main port

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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 (Mindelo), 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:361
# text = Mindelo on São Vicente is the main port for cruise ships and the terminus for the ferry service to Santo Antão.
1	Mindelo	Mindelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Vicente	Vicente	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	cruise	cruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	terminus	terminus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	Antão	Antão	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mindelo on São | the main port and the terminus for the ferry service to Santo |  |  |  | for cruise ships; the terminus for the ferry service to Santo *conj* | 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, «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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