Kenya, sentence 89
From Wikipedia, «Kenya», 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.
In addition, the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Omani and Zanzibari traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists.
Who acts: Portuguese, British abolitionists · What happens: start, buy, interrupt, trade · To what, where: addition, slaves, Omani traders, transatlantic slave trade
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kenya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, British abolitionists), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Portuguese | det |
| 5 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 started | xcomp |
| 8 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buying | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 traders | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 traders | det |
| 11 | Omani | Omani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 traders | compound |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Zanzibari | cc |
| 13 | Zanzibari | Zanzibari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Omani | conj |
| 14 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buying | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 response | case |
| 16 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 traders | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 interruption | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 interruption | det |
| 19 | interruption | interruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 response | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 trade | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trade | det |
| 22 | transatlantic | transatlantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trade | amod |
| 23 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trade | compound |
| 24 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interruption | nmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 abolitionists | case |
| 26 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 abolitionists | amod |
| 27 | abolitionists | abolitionist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trade | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the Portuguese | addition | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | the Portuguese not said here | slaves | the Omani traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent slave=Theme from trader=Source | |||
| 3 | interrupt | the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists | nom interruption «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | trade | British abolitionists | nom trade «act transitive»: by=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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