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title: It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 per… — Lomé · tree and pragmatics
description: It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census. Who acts: city, 2,188,376 permanent residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lomé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lomé, sentence 2

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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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It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census.

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**Who acts:** city, 2,188,376 permanent residents · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** urban population

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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 (city, 2,188,376 permanent residents), 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:2
# text = It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	837,437	837,437	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	2,188,376	2,188,376	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | city | a urban population of 837,437 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | past | 2,188,376 permanent residents in city's metropolitan area as the 2022 census |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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