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title: The city lies on low-lying terrain, with reclaimed land extending it… — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: The city lies on low-lying terrain, with reclaimed land extending its coastline in recent decades due to rapid urban and economic development. Who acts: city, reclaimed land. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Manama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama), 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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The city lies on low-lying terrain, with reclaimed land extending its coastline in recent decades due to rapid urban and economic development.

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**Who acts:** city, reclaimed land · **What happens:** lie, reclaim, extend · **To what, where:** low lying terrain, coastline

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, reclaimed land), 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:Manama:10
# text = The city lies on low-lying terrain, with reclaimed land extending its coastline in recent decades due to rapid urban and economic development.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	terrain	terrain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	reclaimed	reclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the city |  |  | low lying terrain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on terrain=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reclaim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **extend** | gerund | reclaimed land *not said here* | city's coastline |  |  | decade | due rapid urban development | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coastline=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, «Manama», 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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