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Angola, sentence 55

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 slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably sole, economic sector.

Who acts: slave trade · What happens: become

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 (slave trade), 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

detcompoundnsubjadvmodnmod:posscasexcomppunctccadvmodparataxispunctamodconjpunctrootTheDETslaveNOUNtradeNOUNincreasinglyADVbecameVERBKongoPROPN'sPARTprimaryADJ,PUNCTandCCONJarguablyADVsoleADJ,PUNCTeconomicADJsectorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 tradedet
2slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing3 tradecompound
3tradetradeNOUNNumber=Sing5 becamensubj
4increasinglyincreasinglyADV_5 becameadvmod
5becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6KongoKongoPROPNNumber=Sing8 primarynmod:poss
7's'sPART_6 Kongocase
8primaryprimaryADJDegree=Pos5 becamexcomp
9,,PUNCT_12 solepunct
10andandCCONJ_12 solecc
11arguablyarguablyADV_12 soleadvmod
12solesoleADJDegree=Pos5 becameparataxis
13,,PUNCT_15 sectorpunct
14economiceconomicADJDegree=Pos15 sectoramod
15sectorsectorNOUNNumber=Sing12 soleconj
16..PUNCT_5 becamepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1becomepastthe slave tradeincreasingly, primary propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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