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title: After independence, Praia underwent a demographic boom, receiving mi… — Praia · tree and pragmatics
description: After independence, Praia underwent a demographic boom, receiving migrating movements from all the islands. Who acts: Praia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Praia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Praia, sentence 18

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From Wikipedia, [«Praia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praia), 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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After independence, Praia underwent a demographic boom, receiving migrating movements from all the islands.

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**Who acts:** Praia · **What happens:** undergo, receive, migrate · **To what, where:** demographic boom, migrating movements, islands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Praia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Praia), 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:Praia:18
# text = After independence, Praia underwent a demographic boom, receiving migrating movements from all the islands.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Praia	Praia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	underwent	undergo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	demographic	demographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	migrating	migrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undergo** | past | Praia | a demographic boom |  |  | after independence |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | Praia *not said here* | migrating movements |  | all islands |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent movement=Theme from island=Source |
| 3 | **migrate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Praia», 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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