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title: Dakar has a large Lebanese community (concentrated in the import-exp… — Dakar · tree and pragmatics
description: Dakar has a large Lebanese community (concentrated in the import-export sector) that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan businesspeople, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities. Who acts: Dakar, large Lebanese community. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dakar» with its depend
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# Dakar, sentence 72

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From Wikipedia, [«Dakar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar), 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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Dakar has a large Lebanese community (concentrated in the import-export sector) that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan businesspeople, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities.

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**Who acts:** Dakar, large Lebanese community · **What happens:** have, concentrate, export, date · **To what, where:** large Lebanese community, export sector

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakar, large Lebanese community), 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:Dakar:72
# text = Dakar has a large Lebanese community (concentrated in the import-export sector) that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan businesspeople, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities.
1	Dakar	Dakar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	import	import	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	export	export	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Moroccan	moroccan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	businesspeople	businessperson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	31	cc	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
31	Mauritanian	Mauritanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
34	Verdean	Verdean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Guinean	guinean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	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 | **have** | present | Dakar | a large Lebanese community |  |  |  | Guinean communities *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient |
| 2 | **concentrate** | participle |  | a large Lebanese community *not said here* |  | the export sector |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **export** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | import *compound* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **date** | present | a large Lebanese community |  |  |  |  | to the 1920s and a community of Moroccan businesspeople  Mauritanian and Cape Verdean | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Dakar», 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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