Luanda, sentence 24
From Wikipedia, «Luanda», 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 1618, the Portuguese built the fortress called Fortaleza São Pedro da Barra, and they subsequently built two more: Fortaleza de São Miguel (1634) and Forte de São Francisco do Penedo (1765–66).
Who acts: Portuguese, sources, Fortaleza São · What happens: build, call, do · To what, where: fortress, 1618, two more, Penedo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, sources, Fortaleza São), 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 1618 | case |
| 2 | 1618 | 1618 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 built | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1618 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Portuguese | det |
| 5 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fortress | det |
| 8 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fortress | acl |
| 10 | Fortaleza | Fortaleza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fortaleza | flat |
| 12 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Barra | compound |
| 13 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Barra | compound |
| 14 | Barra | Barra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fortaleza | list |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 built | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 built | nsubj |
| 18 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | conj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 more | nummod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 built | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 São | punct |
| 23 | Fortaleza | Fortaleza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 São | compound |
| 24 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fortaleza | flat |
| 25 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 do | nsubj |
| 26 | Miguel | Miguel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 São | flat |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 1634 | punct |
| 28 | 1634 | 1634 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 São | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 1634 | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Forte | cc |
| 31 | Forte | Forte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 São | conj |
| 32 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Forte | flat |
| 33 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Forte | flat |
| 34 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Forte | flat |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | parataxis |
| 36 | Penedo | Penedo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 1765 | punct |
| 38 | 1765 | 1765 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Penedo | appos |
| 39 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 40 66 | case |
| 40 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 1765 | nmod |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 1765 | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Portuguese | the fortress | 1618 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortress=Product | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the fortress not said here | Fortaleza Pedro da Barra xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build | past | sources = source | two more | subsequently property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product | |||
| 4 | do | present | Fortaleza São and Forte | Penedo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penedo=Eventuality |
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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