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title: The metropolitan area is subdivided into various communes (districts). — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics
description: The metropolitan area is subdivided into various communes (districts). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port-au-Prince» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port-au-Prince, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Port-au-Prince»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-au-Prince), 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 metropolitan area is subdivided into various communes (districts).

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**What happens:** subdivide · **To what, where:** metropolitan area, various communes

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». 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:Port-au-Prince:101
# text = The metropolitan area is subdivided into various communes (districts).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	subdivided	subdivide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	communes	commune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdivide** | present · passive |  | the metropolitan area |  | various communes |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Port-au-Prince», 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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