Angola, sentence 60
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.
As the slave trade was the only commodity in which Europeans were interested in the region during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Kongo economy was unable to diversify or later industrialise outside of sectors in which slavery was involved, such as the arms industry.
Who acts: Europeans, Kongo economy, slavery · What happens: be, diversify, industrialise · To what, where: only commodity, sectors
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 (Europeans, Kongo economy, slavery), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 trade | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trade | det |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trade | compound |
| 4 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commodity | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 commodity | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 commodity | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 commodity | amod |
| 8 | commodity | commodity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 interested | obl |
| 11 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 interested | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 interested | cop |
| 13 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 commodity | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 region | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 region | det |
| 16 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interested | obl |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 centuries | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 centuries | det |
| 19 | 16th | 16th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 22 centuries | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 17th | cc |
| 21 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 19 16th | conj |
| 22 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 interested | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 unable | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 economy | det |
| 25 | Kongo | Kongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 economy | compound |
| 26 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unable | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 unable | cop |
| 28 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 commodity | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 diversify | mark |
| 30 | diversify | diversify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 unable | xcomp |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 industrialise | cc |
| 32 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 industrialise | advmod |
| 33 | industrialise | industrialise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 unable | conj |
| 34 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 36 sectors | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sectors | case |
| 36 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 industrialise | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 involved | obl |
| 39 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 involved | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 involved | cop |
| 41 | involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sectors | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 industry | punct |
| 43 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 47 industry | case |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 such | fixed |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 industry | det |
| 46 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 industry | compound |
| 47 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 involved | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 commodity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the only commodity | as the slave trade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Europeans | the only commodity | century | in the region; interested property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is | past | the Kongo economy | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | diversify | to-infinitive | the Kongo economy not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | industrialise | infinitive | the Kongo economy not said here | outside sectors; late property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | slavery | sectors | involved property | tree rules |
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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