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title: Maputo is a cosmopolitan city, with Xitsonga, Portuguese, and, to a… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: Maputo is a cosmopolitan city, with Xitsonga, Portuguese, and, to a lesser extent, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese languages and cultures present. Who acts: Maputo, Chinese languages. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Maputo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maputo), 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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Maputo is a cosmopolitan city, with Xitsonga, Portuguese, and, to a lesser extent, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese languages and cultures present.

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**Who acts:** Maputo, Chinese languages · **What happens:** be, present · **To what, where:** cosmopolitan city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maputo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maputo, Chinese languages), 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:Maputo:12
# text = Maputo is a cosmopolitan city, with Xitsonga, Portuguese, and, to a lesser extent, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese languages and cultures present.
1	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cosmopolitan	cosmopolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Xitsonga	Xitsonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Maputo | a cosmopolitan city |  |  |  | Xitsonga *appos*; a lesser extent *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **present** | present | Chinese languages and cultures |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Maputo», 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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