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title: As a multiethnic city, Tbilisi is home to more than 100 ethnic groups. — Tbilisi · tree and pragmatics
description: As a multiethnic city, Tbilisi is home to more than 100 ethnic groups. Who acts: Tbilisi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tbilisi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tbilisi, sentence 173

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From Wikipedia, [«Tbilisi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), 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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As a multiethnic city, Tbilisi is home to more than 100 ethnic groups.

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**Who acts:** Tbilisi · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tbilisi), 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:Tbilisi:173
# text = As a multiethnic city, Tbilisi is home to more than 100 ethnic groups.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	multiethnic	multiethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Tbilisi	Tbilisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tbilisi |  |  |  |  | to 100 ethnic groups; as a multiethnic city; home *property* | 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, «Tbilisi», 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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