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title: Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are undergoing an… — Luanda · tree and pragmatics
description: Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are undergoing an extensive reconstruction process by the government in order to relieve traffic congestion in the city. Who acts: roads. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Luanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Luanda, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«Luanda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda), 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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Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are undergoing an extensive reconstruction process by the government in order to relieve traffic congestion in the city.

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**Who acts:** roads · **What happens:** be, undergo, relieve · **To what, where:** poor state, extensive reconstruction process, order, traffic congestion, city

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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: who acts (roads), 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:Luanda:156
# text = Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are undergoing an extensive reconstruction process by the government in order to relieve traffic congestion in the city.
1	Luanda	Luanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	undergoing	undergo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	relieve	relieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
26	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	congestion	congestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Luanda's roads |  |  | a poor state |  | of repair | tree rules |
| 2 | **undergo** | present · progressive | Luanda's roads *not said here* | a extensive reconstruction process |  | order |  | by the government | tree rules |
| 3 | **relieve** | to-infinitive | Luanda's roads *not said here* | traffic congestion |  | the city |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus congestion=Experiencer |

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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, «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.

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