--- title: Samuel Dalembert (born 1981), basketball player — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics description: Samuel Dalembert (born 1981), basketball player Who acts: Samuel. 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/124/) [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/) / 124 # Port-au-Prince, sentence 124 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. Samuel Dalembert (born 1981), basketball player **Who acts:** Samuel · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1981, Samuel 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 (Samuel), 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:124 # text = Samuel Dalembert (born 1981), basketball player 1 Samuel Samuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Dalembert Dalembert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 5 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 basketball basketball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 list _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | Samuel basketball player *not said here* | 1981 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1981=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 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/125/) - ↑ back to [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/)