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title: As the lantans move through the city, they are lit from within elect… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: As the lantans move through the city, they are lit from within electric bulbs powered by generators, creating a glowing spectacle. Who acts: lantans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 161

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From Wikipedia, [«Freetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown), 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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As the lantans move through the city, they are lit from within electric bulbs powered by generators, creating a glowing spectacle.

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**Who acts:** lantans · **What happens:** move, lit, power, create, glow · **To what, where:** city, lantans, electric bulbs, glowing spectacle

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Freetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lantans), 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:Freetown:161
# text = As the lantans move through the city, they are lit from within electric bulbs powered by generators, creating a glowing spectacle.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lantans	lantan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	powered	power	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	generators	generator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | the lantans |  |  | the city |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through city=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lit** | present · passive |  | lantans *= lantan* |  |  |  | within electric bulbs | tree rules |
| 3 | **power** | participle |  | electric bulbs *not said here* |  |  |  | by generators | tree rules |
| 4 | **create** | gerund |  | a glowing spectacle |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Result |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Freetown», 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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