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title: To the south, a road was built that connected Manama to Riffa. — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: To the south, a road was built that connected Manama to Riffa. Who acts: road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 155

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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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To the south, a road was built that connected Manama to Riffa.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** build, connect · **To what, where:** road, Manama, Riffa

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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 (road), 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:155
# text = To the south, a road was built that connected Manama to Riffa.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	connected	connect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Manama	Manama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Riffa	Riffa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | a road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» |
| 2 | **connect** | past | a road | Manama | Riffa |  |  | to the south; that *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent manama=Patient to south=Co-Patient |

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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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