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title: Today, it is managed by the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC),… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: Today, it is managed by the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a joint venture of Grindrod and DP World. Who acts: Maputo Port, Grindrod. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 256

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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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Today, it is managed by the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a joint venture of Grindrod and DP World.

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**Who acts:** Maputo Port, Grindrod · **What happens:** manage, venture · **To what, where:** port

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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 Port, Grindrod), 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:256
# text = Today, it is managed by the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a joint venture of Grindrod and DP World.
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	MPDC	MPDC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	joint	joint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Grindrod	Grindrod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	DP	DP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	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 | **manage** | present · passive | the Maputo Port and a joint venture of Grindrod and DP World | port |  |  | today |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** |  | Grindrod and DP World |  |  |  |  |  | nom venture «act intransitive»: of=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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