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title: To the west of the city is a residential area which, facing the sea,… — Lomé · tree and pragmatics
description: To the west of the city is a residential area which, facing the sea, unfolds long arteries, punctuated by official buildings such as the Palace of Justice and various embassies and consulates. Who acts: residential area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lomé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lomé, sentence 127

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From Wikipedia, [«Lomé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomé), 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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To the west of the city is a residential area which, facing the sea, unfolds long arteries, punctuated by official buildings such as the Palace of Justice and various embassies and consulates.

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**Who acts:** residential area · **What happens:** be, face, unfold, punctuate · **To what, where:** residential area, sea, long arteries

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (residential area), 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:Lomé:127
# text = To the west of the city is a residential area which, facing the sea, unfolds long arteries, punctuated by official buildings such as the Palace of Justice and various embassies and consulates.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	unfolds	unfold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	arteries	artery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	consulates	consulate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a residential area |  |  |  | to the west of the city | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** | gerund | a residential area | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination |
| 3 | **unfold** | present |  | long arteries |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent artery=Patient |
| 4 | **punctuate** | participle |  | long arteries *not said here* |  |  |  | by official buildings such the Palace of Justice and various embassies and consulates | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Lomé», 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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