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title: The Juba City Council's CEO, Martin Simon Wani, has claimed the popu… — Juba · tree and pragmatics
description: The Juba City Council's CEO, Martin Simon Wani, has claimed the population exceeds one million with up to a million more living in surrounding suburbs. Who acts: population, million more living. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Juba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Juba, sentence 83

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From Wikipedia, [«Juba»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba), 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 Juba City Council's CEO, Martin Simon Wani, has claimed the population exceeds one million with up to a million more living in surrounding suburbs.

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**Who acts:** population, million more living · **What happens:** claim, exceed, surround · **To what, where:** CEO, one million, suburbs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Juba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population, million more living), 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:Juba:83
# text = The Juba City Council's CEO, Martin Simon Wani, has claimed the population exceeds one million with up to a million more living in surrounding suburbs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Juba	Juba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	CEO	ceo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Wani	Wani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	exceeds	exceed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | the City Council's CEO |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exceed** | present | the population | one million |  |  |  | with million more living | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent million=Theme with living=Instrument |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund | million more living *not said here* | suburbs |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme suburb=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, «Juba», 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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