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title: Maputo was formerly named Lourenço Marques (lo(w)ˈɾẽsu ˈmaɾkɨʃ; unti… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: Maputo was formerly named Lourenço Marques (lo(w)ˈɾẽsu ˈmaɾkɨʃ; until 1976). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 7

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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 was formerly named Lourenço Marques (lo(w)ˈɾẽsu ˈmaɾkɨʃ; until 1976).

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**What happens:** name · **To what, where:** Maputo

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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: 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:7
# text = Maputo was formerly named Lourenço Marques (lo(w)ˈɾẽsu ˈmaɾkɨʃ; until 1976).
1	Maputo	Maputo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Lourenço	Lourenço	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Marques	marque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	w	w	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ˈɾẽsu	ˈɾẽsu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ˈmaɾkɨʃ	ˈmaɾkɨʃ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | Maputo |  |  | until 1976 | Lourenço Marques *xcomp*; formerly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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