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# Hanoi, sentence 74

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From Wikipedia, [«Hanoi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi), 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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He built a wall around the city measuring 6,344 meters, with some sections reaching over eight meters in height.

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**Who acts:** Gao, sections · **What happens:** build, measure, reach · **To what, where:** wall, city, 6,344 meters, eight meters, height

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hanoi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gao, sections), 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:Hanoi:74
# text = He built a wall around the city measuring 6,344 meters, with some sections reaching over eight meters in height.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	6,344	6,344	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Gao | a wall |  | the city |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product |
| 2 | **measure** | gerund | Gao *not said here* | 6,344 meters |  |  |  | with some sections | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme meter=Value |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | some sections *not said here* | eight meters |  | height |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meter=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, «Hanoi», 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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