--- title: A new international airport, Dr. António Agostinho Neto Internationa… — Luanda · tree and pragmatics description: A new international airport, Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport was constructed southeast of the city, a few kilometres from Viana, and was expected to be opened in 2011. 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A new international airport, Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport was constructed southeast of the city, a few kilometres from Viana, and was expected to be opened in 2011. **What happens:** construct, expect, open · **To what, where:** new international airport, 2011 This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Luanda:149 # text = A new international airport, Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport was constructed southeast of the city, a few kilometres from Viana, and was expected to be opened in 2011. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 international international ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 airport airport NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Dr. Dr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 António António PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 Agostinho Agostinho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 Neto Neto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 10 International International ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Airport Airport PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 constructed construct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 southeast southeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Viana Viana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **construct** | past · passive | | a new international airport | | | | António Dr. *nsubj:pass*; southeast of the city a few kilometres from Viana *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **expect** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: clause=Theme | | 3 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | 2011 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in 2011=Location | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Luanda», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luanda/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luanda/150/) - ↑ back to [Luanda](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luanda/)