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title: In 2001, 34% of the population was considered urban, but the urban p… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2001, 34% of the population was considered urban, but the urban population has since grown; in recent years rural population growth has been negative, while overall population growth is still relatively high. Who acts: rural population growth, overall population growth. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# Comoros, sentence 223

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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In 2001, 34% of the population was considered urban, but the urban population has since grown; in recent years rural population growth has been negative, while overall population growth is still relatively high.

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**Who acts:** rural population growth, overall population growth · **What happens:** consider, grow, be · **To what, where:** 2001, urban population

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rural population growth, overall population growth), 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:Comoros:223
# text = In 2001, 34% of the population was considered urban, but the urban population has since grown; in recent years rural population growth has been negative, while overall population growth is still relatively high.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	since	since	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
24	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	overall	overall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  |  |  | 2001 |  | urban *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect · passive |  | the urban population |  |  |  | since *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | rural population growth |  |  |  | year | negative *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | overall population growth |  |  |  | still | high, relatively *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, «Comoros», 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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