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title: In the early 1990s, a section of the hospital was divided and turned… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early 1990s, a section of the hospital was divided and turned into a private clinic offering higher quality services for those who could afford it called the Clínica Especial de Maputo. Who acts: private clinic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 340

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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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In the early 1990s, a section of the hospital was divided and turned into a private clinic offering higher quality services for those who could afford it called the Clínica Especial de Maputo.

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**Who acts:** private clinic · **What happens:** divide, turn, offer, afford, call, section · **To what, where:** section, early 1990s, private clinic, higher quality services, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (private clinic), 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:340
# text = In the early 1990s, a section of the hospital was divided and turned into a private clinic offering higher quality services for those who could afford it called the Clínica Especial de Maputo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	clinic	clinic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
21	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Clínica	Clínica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Especial	Especial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | a section of the hospital |  | the early 1990s |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | participle |  |  |  | a private clinic |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into clinic=Trajectory |
| 3 | **offer** | gerund | a private clinic *not said here* | higher quality services |  |  |  | for a private clinic | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent service=Theme for that=Goal |
| 4 | **afford** | could |  | section |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Especial Maputo *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **section** |  |  | the hospital |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=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, «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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