Angola, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Angola», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The MPLA attempted to move its headquarters from Conakry to Léopoldville in October 1961, renewing efforts to create a common front with the FNLA, then known as the Union of Angolan Peoples (UPA) and its leader Holden Roberto.
Who acts: MPLA · What happens: attempt, move, renew, create, know · To what, where: Léopoldville, headquarters, Conakry, efforts, common front
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Angola». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MPLA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 MPLA | det |
| 2 | MPLA | MPLA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | xcomp |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 headquarters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Conakry | case |
| 9 | Conakry | Conakry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Léopoldville | case |
| 11 | Léopoldville | Léopoldville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 October | case |
| 13 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | obl |
| 14 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 October | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 renewing | punct |
| 16 | renewing | renew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 attempted | advcl |
| 17 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 renewing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 create | mark |
| 19 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 renewing | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 front | det |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 front | amod |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 create | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 FNLA | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 FNLA | det |
| 25 | FNLA | FNLA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 front | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 known | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 known | advmod |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attempted | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 Union | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Union | det |
| 31 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 known | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Peoples | case |
| 33 | Angolan | Angolan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Peoples | compound |
| 34 | Peoples | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Union | conj |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 UPA | punct |
| 36 | UPA | UPA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Peoples | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 UPA | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Holden | cc |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 leader | nmod:poss |
| 40 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Holden | nmod:desc |
| 41 | Holden | Holden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Union | conj |
| 42 | Roberto | Roberto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Holden | flat |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | the MPLA | Léopoldville | october | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | the MPLA not said here | assistance's headquarters | Conakry | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent headquarters=Theme from conakry=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | renew | gerund | the MPLA not said here | efforts | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | create | to-infinitive | the MPLA not said here | a common front | with the FNLA | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent front=Result | |||
| 5 | know | participle | the MPLA not said here | then | as the Union and Angolan Peoples and Holden assistance's leader | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as union=Attribute |
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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