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title: There is a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries as… — Luanda · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries as well, including a small expatriate South African community. Who acts: sprinkling. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Luanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Luanda, sentence 93

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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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There is a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries as well, including a small expatriate South African community.

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**Who acts:** sprinkling · **What happens:** be

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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 (sprinkling), 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:93
# text = There is a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries as well, including a small expatriate South African community.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sprinkling	sprinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	including	including	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	expatriate	expatriate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a sprinkling of immigrants from other African countries |  |  | there |  | a small expatriate and African community *parataxis* | 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, «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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