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title: The city of Maputo lies at the end of three railway lines: Goba rail… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: The city of Maputo lies at the end of three railway lines: Goba railway, Limpopo railway and Pretoria–Maputo railway. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 248

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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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The city of Maputo lies at the end of three railway lines: Goba railway, Limpopo railway and Pretoria–Maputo railway.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** end

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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 (city), 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:248
# text = The city of Maputo lies at the end of three railway lines: Goba railway, Limpopo railway and Pretoria–Maputo railway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Goba	Goba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 of Maputo |  |  |  | at the end of three railway lines  Goba railway and Maputo railway |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |

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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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