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title: Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-spe… — Luanda · tree and pragmatics
description: Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. Who acts: metropolitan area, populous. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Luanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Luanda, sentence 4

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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 and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil.

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**Who acts:** metropolitan area, populous · **What happens:** speak, be, city · **To what, where:** populous speaking national capital, world, Luanda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (metropolitan area, populous), 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:4
# text = Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil.
1	Luanda	Luanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Lusophone	Lusophone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | centre's metropolitan area | the populous speaking national capital |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **city** |  | populous |  |  |  |  | outside Brazil | tree rules |

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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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