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title: There are smaller harbours, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal o… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: There are smaller harbours, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal on São Nicolau, Sal Rei on Boa Vista, Vila do Maio (Porto Inglês) on Maio, São Filipe on Fogo and Furna on Brava. Who acts: smaller harbours. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 365

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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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There are smaller harbours, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal on São Nicolau, Sal Rei on Boa Vista, Vila do Maio (Porto Inglês) on Maio, São Filipe on Fogo and Furna on Brava.

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**Who acts:** smaller harbours · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** Maio

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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 (smaller harbours), 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:365
# text = There are smaller harbours, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal on São Nicolau, Sal Rei on Boa Vista, Vila do Maio (Porto Inglês) on Maio, São Filipe on Fogo and Furna on Brava.
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	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	harbours	harbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jetties	jetty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tarrafal	Tarrafal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Nicolau	Nicolau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Sal	Sal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	Rei	Rei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Boa	Boa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	Vista	Vista	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Vila	Vila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
23	Maio	Maio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Porto	Porto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	Inglês	Inglês	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Maio	Maio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	Filipe	Filipe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Fogo	Fogo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Furna	Furna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Brava	Brava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | smaller harbours  single jetties at Tarrafal on São and Sal on Boa and Vila | Maio and São on Fogo and Furna |  | Maio |  | on Brava | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maio=Eventuality |

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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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