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title: It connects Port-au-Prince to the central plateau and Cap-Haïtien. — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics
description: It connects Port-au-Prince to the central plateau and Cap-Haïtien. Who acts: support. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port-au-Prince» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port-au-Prince, sentence 196

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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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It connects Port-au-Prince to the central plateau and Cap-Haïtien.

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**Who acts:** support · **What happens:** connect · **To what, where:** Port

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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 (support), 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:196
# text = It connects Port-au-Prince to the central plateau and Cap-Haïtien.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Haïtien	Haïtien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | support | Port and Prince |  |  |  | to the central plateau | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent port=Patient to plateau=Co-Patient |

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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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