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title: Pétion-Ville is an affluent suburban commune located southeast of th… — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics
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# Port-au-Prince, sentence 103

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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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Pétion-Ville is an affluent suburban commune located southeast of the city.

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**Who acts:** Pétion, affluent suburban commune · **What happens:** be, locate · **To what, where:** affluent suburban commune, southeast

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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: who acts (Pétion, affluent suburban commune), 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:103
# text = Pétion-Ville is an affluent suburban commune located southeast of the city.
1	Pétion	Pétion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ville	Ville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	affluent	affluent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	commune	commune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pétion | a affluent suburban commune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | participle | a affluent suburban commune *not said here* | southeast |  |  |  | of the city | 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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