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title: There are direct elections for the city's deputies to the National A… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: There are direct elections for the city's deputies to the National Assembly based on slates, and a portion of the candidates is nominated at the local level. Who acts: direct elections. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Havana, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«Havana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana), 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 direct elections for the city's deputies to the National Assembly based on slates, and a portion of the candidates is nominated at the local level.

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**Who acts:** direct elections · **What happens:** be, base, nominate · **To what, where:** deputies, slates, portion, local level

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Havana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (direct elections), 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:Havana:122
# text = There are direct elections for the city's deputies to the National Assembly based on slates, and a portion of the candidates is nominated at the local level.
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	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	deputies	deputy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	slates	slate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	nominated	nominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | direct elections |  |  | there |  | for the city's deputies to the National Assembly | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | the city's deputies to the National Assembly *not said here* |  | slates |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on slate=Source |
| 3 | **nominate** | present · passive |  | a portion of the candidates |  | the local level |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «Havana», 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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