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title: On the outskirts of Souissi are a number of less dense regions mainl… — Rabat · tree and pragmatics
description: On the outskirts of Souissi are a number of less dense regions mainly comprising large private houses to areas that seem out of the city. Who acts: outskirts, dense regions, areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rabat, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Rabat»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat), 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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On the outskirts of Souissi are a number of less dense regions mainly comprising large private houses to areas that seem out of the city.

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**Who acts:** outskirts, dense regions, areas · **What happens:** be, comprise, seem · **To what, where:** number, large private houses, city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outskirts, dense regions, areas), 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:Rabat:105
# text = On the outskirts of Souissi are a number of less dense regions mainly comprising large private houses to areas that seem out of the city.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Souissi	Souissi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the outskirts of Souissi | a number |  |  |  | of dense regions | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | dense regions *not said here* | large private houses |  |  |  | to areas; mainly *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Pivot |
| 3 | **seem** | present | areas |  |  | the city |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Rabat», 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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