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title: The goal is to reduce passengers' commute times, protect the environ… — Lima · tree and pragmatics
description: The goal is to reduce passengers' commute times, protect the environment, provide improved security and overall quality of service. Who acts: goal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lima» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lima, sentence 538

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From Wikipedia, [«Lima»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima), 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 goal is to reduce passengers' commute times, protect the environment, provide improved security and overall quality of service.

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**Who acts:** goal · **What happens:** be, commute, protect, provide, improve · **To what, where:** environment, improved security

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goal), 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:Lima:538
# text = The goal is to reduce passengers' commute times, protect the environment, provide improved security and overall quality of service.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	commute	commute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	overall	overall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the goal |  |  |  |  | passengers *obj*; reduce *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **commute** | infinitive | the goal *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **protect** | infinitive |  | the environment |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent environment=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **provide** | infinitive |  | improved security and overall quality of service |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition security=Theme |
| 5 | **improve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, «Lima», 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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