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title: A ring road passing on the east side of Port Louis is also expected… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: A ring road passing on the east side of Port Louis is also expected to reduce congestion. Who acts: ring road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 78

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From Wikipedia, [«Port Louis»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Louis), 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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A ring road passing on the east side of Port Louis is also expected to reduce congestion.

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**Who acts:** ring road · **What happens:** pass, expect, reduce · **To what, where:** east side, ring road, congestion

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Louis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring road), 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_Louis:78
# text = A ring road passing on the east side of Port Louis is also expected to reduce congestion.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	congestion	congestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | a ring road *not said here* |  |  | the east side of Port Louis |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **expect** | present · passive |  | a ring road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reduce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a ring road *not said here* | congestion |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer congestion=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 Louis», 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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