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title: The thousands of ships that gathered in the city's bay fueled Havana… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: The thousands of ships that gathered in the city's bay fueled Havana's agriculture and manufacturing industries, since they had to be supplied with food, water, and other products needed to traverse the ocean. Who acts: ships, thousands, other products. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its de
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# Havana, sentence 41

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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 thousands of ships that gathered in the city's bay fueled Havana's agriculture and manufacturing industries, since they had to be supplied with food, water, and other products needed to traverse the ocean.

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**Who acts:** ships, thousands, other products · **What happens:** gather, fuel, have, supply, need, traverse · **To what, where:** bay, agriculture, other products, ocean

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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 (ships, thousands, other products), 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:41
# text = The thousands of ships that gathered in the city's bay fueled Havana's agriculture and manufacturing industries, since they had to be supplied with food, water, and other products needed to traverse the ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	fueled	fuel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Havana	Havana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	manufacturing	manufacturing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	traverse	traverse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | ships |  |  | the city's bay |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fuel** | past | the thousands of ships | Havana's agriculture and manufacturing industries |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent agriculture=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | past | thousands *= thousand* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **supply** | to-infinitive · passive | thousands *= thousand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with food and water | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with food=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | participle · passive |  | other products |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **traverse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | other products *not said here* | the ocean |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ocean=Co-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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