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title: The city was catastrophically affected by a massive earthquake in 20… — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics
description: The city was catastrophically affected by a massive earthquake in 2010, with large numbers of structures damaged or destroyed. Who acts: massive earthquake. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port-au-Prince» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port-au-Prince, sentence 8

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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 city was catastrophically affected by a massive earthquake in 2010, with large numbers of structures damaged or destroyed.

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**Who acts:** massive earthquake · **What happens:** affect, damage, destroy · **To what, where:** city, 2010, structures

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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 (massive earthquake), 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:8
# text = The city was catastrophically affected by a massive earthquake in 2010, with large numbers of structures damaged or destroyed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	catastrophically	catastrophically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past · passive | a massive earthquake | the city |  | 2010 |  | with large numbers of structures; catastrophically *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **damage** | participle |  | structures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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