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title: For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, the… — Praia · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, the other neighbourhoods being relegated to the condition of peripheral suburbs, in spite of always having a close relationship with the Plateau (people movements, goods and services exchanges, etc.). Who acts: spite. A sentence of Wik
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# Praia, sentence 26

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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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For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, the other neighbourhoods being relegated to the condition of peripheral suburbs, in spite of always having a close relationship with the Plateau (people movements, goods and services exchanges, etc.).

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**Who acts:** spite · **What happens:** consider, be, relegate, have, condition · **To what, where:** Plateau, city, other neighbourhoods, spite, close relationship, peripheral suburbs

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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 (spite), 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:26
# text = For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, the other neighbourhoods being relegated to the condition of peripheral suburbs, in spite of always having a close relationship with the Plateau (people movements, goods and services exchanges, etc.).
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	relegated	relegate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	peripheral	peripheral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	41	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
46	exchanges	exchange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  | the Plateau |  |  | time |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **relegate** | gerund · passive |  | the other neighbourhoods |  | spite |  | to the condition of peripheral suburbs | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | spite *not said here* | a close relationship |  |  |  | with the Plateau and people; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Patient |
| 5 | **condition** |  |  | peripheral suburbs |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=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, «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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