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title: In general, the increase in Lisbon's population is essentially attri… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: In general, the increase in Lisbon's population is essentially attributable to the influx of people coming from abroad, who have more than tripled since 2017. Who acts: increase, people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 343

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From Wikipedia, [«Lisbon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon), 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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In general, the increase in Lisbon's population is essentially attributable to the influx of people coming from abroad, who have more than tripled since 2017.

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**Who acts:** increase, people · **What happens:** be, come, have, triple · **To what, where:** general, more

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lisbon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (increase, people), 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:Lisbon:343
# text = In general, the increase in Lisbon's population is essentially attributable to the influx of people coming from abroad, who have more than tripled since 2017.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	attributable	attributable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	23	obj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	tripled	triple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	since	since	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the increase in Lisbon's population |  |  | general |  | to the influx of people; attributable, essentially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from abroad=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | people | more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 4 | **triple** | participle |  |  |  |  | since 2017 |  | 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, «Lisbon», 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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