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title: The national government does not have an official definition of pove… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: The national government does not have an official definition of poverty. Who acts: national government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Havana, sentence 238

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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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The national government does not have an official definition of poverty.

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**Who acts:** national government · **What happens:** not have, define · **To what, where:** official definition, poverty

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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 (national government), 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:238
# text = The national government does not have an official definition of poverty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | the national government | a official definition of poverty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent definition=Patient |
| 2 | **define** |  |  | poverty |  |  |  |  | nom definition «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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