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title: This was the tallest high-strength concrete structure in the world a… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the tallest high-strength concrete structure in the world at the time (using no steel frame). Who acts: This, time. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Havana, sentence 408

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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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This was the tallest high-strength concrete structure in the world at the time (using no steel frame).

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**Who acts:** This, time · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** tallest concrete structure, world, steel frame

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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 (This, time), 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:408
# text = This was the tallest high-strength concrete structure in the world at the time (using no steel frame).
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the tallest concrete structure |  | the world | time | high strength *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the time *not said here* | no steel frame |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=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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