Mozambique, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Mozambique», 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.
RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud and threatened to return to civil war but backed down after taking the matter to the Supreme Court and losing.
Who acts: RENAMO · What happens: accuse, threaten, return, back down, take, lose · To what, where: FRELIMO, matter, Supreme Court
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (RENAMO), 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 | RENAMO | RENAMO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 accused | nsubj |
| 2 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | FRELIMO | FRELIMO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 accused | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fraud | case |
| 5 | fraud | fraud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accused | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 threatened | cc |
| 7 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 accused | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threatened | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 war | case |
| 11 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 war | amod |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 backed | cc |
| 14 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 threatened | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 backed | compound:prt |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 taking | mark |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 backed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Court | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Court | det |
| 22 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Court | amod |
| 23 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 losing | cc |
| 25 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 taking | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | past | RENAMO | FRELIMO | of fraud | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frelimo=Theme of fraud=Attribute | |||
| 2 | threaten | participle | RENAMO not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | RENAMO not said here | to civil war result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to war=Result | ||||
| 4 | back down | participle | RENAMO not said here | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | gerund | RENAMO not said here | the matter | the Supreme Court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 6 | lose | gerund | RENAMO not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mozambique», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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