--- title: Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist, was born i… — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics description: Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist, was born in Port-au-Prince A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port-au-Prince» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/122/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/) / 122 # Port-au-Prince, sentence 122 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. Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist, was born in Port-au-Prince **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Édouard, Port au 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. **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:122 # text = Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist, was born in Port-au-Prince 1 Édouard Édouard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Gérard Gérard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 Balbiani Balbiani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 1823 1823 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 list _ SpaceAfter=No 7 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No 8 1899 1899 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 embryologist embryologist NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 list _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | Édouard French embryologist and Gérard | | Port au | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/123/) - ↑ back to [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/)