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title: The metropolitan population of Suva including the towns of Lami, Nas… — Suva · tree and pragmatics
description: The metropolitan population of Suva including the towns of Lami, Nasinu, and Nausori was 268,423 (this urban complex, excluding Lami, is also known as the Suva-Nausori corridor). Who acts: urban complex. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suva» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suva, sentence 7

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From Wikipedia, [«Suva»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva), 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 metropolitan population of Suva including the towns of Lami, Nasinu, and Nausori was 268,423 (this urban complex, excluding Lami, is also known as the Suva-Nausori corridor).

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**Who acts:** urban complex · **What happens:** include, be, exclude, know · **To what, where:** 268,423, Lami, Nausori, metropolitan population

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suva». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urban complex), 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:Suva:7
# text = The metropolitan population of Suva including the towns of Lami, Nasinu, and Nausori was 268,423 (this urban complex, excluding Lami, is also known as the Suva-Nausori corridor).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Suva	Suva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Lami	Lami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Nasinu	Nasinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	Nausori	Nausori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	268,423	268,423	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	list	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	complex	complex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	excluding	exclude	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	Lami	Lami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Suva	Suva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Nausori	Nausori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | 268,423 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclude** | gerund | this urban complex *not said here* | Lami |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer lami=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | Nausori |  |  |  | as the Nausori corridor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as corridor=Attribute |

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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, «Suva», 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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