Angola, sentence 138
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 persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the MPLA to drive its opponents from Luanda and blunt an abortive intervention by Zairean and South African troops, which had deployed in a belated attempt to assist the FNLA and UNITA.
Who acts: persistent buildup, MPLA · What happens: allow, drive, deploy, belat, assist · To what, where: MPLA, opponents, Luanda, South African troops, belated attempt, FNLA
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 (persistent buildup, 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 | 3 buildup | det |
| 2 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buildup | amod |
| 3 | buildup | buildup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 allowed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 5 | Cuban | Cuban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 aid | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Soviet | cc |
| 7 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cuban | conj |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 aid | amod |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildup | nmod |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 MPLA | det |
| 12 | MPLA | MPLA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 allowed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drive | mark |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 opponents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drive | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Luanda | case |
| 18 | Luanda | Luanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 intervention | cc |
| 20 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 intervention | amod |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 intervention | det |
| 22 | abortive | abortive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 intervention | amod |
| 23 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Luanda | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Zairean | case |
| 25 | Zairean | zairean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drive | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 troops | cc |
| 27 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 troops | compound |
| 28 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 troops | amod |
| 29 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 Zairean | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 deployed | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 deployed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 deployed | aux |
| 33 | deployed | deploy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 troops | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 attempt | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 attempt | det |
| 36 | belated | belat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 attempt | amod |
| 37 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 deployed | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 assist | mark |
| 39 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 attempt | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 FNLA | det |
| 41 | FNLA | FNLA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 assist | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 UNITA | cc |
| 43 | UNITA | UNITA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 FNLA | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the persistent buildup of Cuban military aid | the MPLA | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer mpla=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive | the MPLA not said here | buildup's opponents | Luanda and a blunt abortive intervention | by Zairean and South African troops | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent opponent=Theme from luanda=Destination by zairean=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | deploy | past · perfect · passive | South African troops | a belated attempt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belat | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | assist | to-infinitive | the FNLA and UNITA | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fnla=Beneficiary |
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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