Angola, sentence 20
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 name Angola is based on the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais's 1571 charter.
Who acts: Reino, Dias Novais · What happens: base, appear, charter · To what, where: name, Portuguese colonial name, early
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 (Reino, Dias Novais), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 based | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Angola | Angola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 based | aux:pass |
| 5 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 8 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 9 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 based | obl |
| 11 | Reino | Reino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | appos |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Reino | flat |
| 13 | Angola | Angola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Reino | flat |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kingdom | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kingdom | punct |
| 16 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Reino | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Angola | case |
| 18 | Angola | Angola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kingdom | nmod |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kingdom | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kingdom | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Reino | acl:relcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 early | advmod |
| 25 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 appeared | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 charter | case |
| 27 | Paulo | Paulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Dias | compound |
| 28 | Dias | Dias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Novais | compound |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Dias | flat |
| 30 | Novais | Novais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 charter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Novais | case |
| 32 | 1571 | 1571 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 charter | nummod |
| 33 | charter | charter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 early | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | present · passive | the name | the Portuguese colonial name | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on name=Source | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | Reino | early | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location early=Theme | ||||
| 3 | charter | Dias Novais | nom charter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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