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title: The city had a population of 840,000 as of the 2023 census. — Vientiane · tree and pragmatics
description: The city had a population of 840,000 as of the 2023 census. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vientiane» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vientiane, sentence 4

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From Wikipedia, [«Vientiane»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vientiane), 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 city had a population of 840,000 as of the 2023 census.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** population

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vientiane». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), 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:Vientiane:4
# text = The city had a population of 840,000 as of the 2023 census.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	840,000	840,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the city | a population of 840,000 |  |  |  | as the 2023 census | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=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, «Vientiane», 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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