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title: Shanty towns are scattered throughout the city except for in a few c… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: Shanty towns are scattered throughout the city except for in a few central areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Havana, sentence 244

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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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Shanty towns are scattered throughout the city except for in a few central areas.

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**What happens:** scatter · **To what, where:** Shanty towns, city

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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: 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:244
# text = Shanty towns are scattered throughout the city except for in a few central areas.
1	Shanty	shanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	except	except	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present · passive |  | Shanty towns |  | the city except a few central areas |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme throughout city=Destination |

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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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