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title: Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few… — Nouakchott · tree and pragmatics
description: Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few tall buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nouakchott» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nouakchott, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Nouakchott»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouakchott), 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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Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few tall buildings.

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**What happens:** owe, spread out · **To what, where:** rapid build up, city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». 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:Nouakchott:36
# text = Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few tall buildings.
1	Owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	build	build	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the rapid build up *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to up=Goal |
| 2 | **spread out** | present · passive |  | the city |  |  |  | with few tall buildings | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with building=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, «Nouakchott», 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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