Mozambique, sentence 166
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.
Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's government to undertake overt and covert actions to oppose the country.
Who acts: country access, government, Mozambique · What happens: enforce, deny, lead, undertake, oppose, decide · To what, where: UN sanctions, government, overt actions, country, decision
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 (country access, government, Mozambique), 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 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 decision | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mozambique | case |
| 3 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enforce | mark |
| 5 | enforce | enforce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decision | acl |
| 6 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sanctions | compound |
| 7 | sanctions | sanction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enforce | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 Rhodesia | case |
| 9 | Rhodesia | Rhodesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sanctions | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 deny | cc |
| 11 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enforce | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 led | mark |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 access | compound |
| 14 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 access | nmod |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 deny | advcl |
| 19 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 government | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ian | flat |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ian | case |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 undertake | mark |
| 24 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 led | xcomp |
| 25 | overt | overt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 actions | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 covert | cc |
| 27 | covert | covert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 overt | conj |
| 28 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 undertake | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 oppose | mark |
| 30 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 undertake | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 country | det |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 oppose | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decision | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enforce | to-infinitive | UN sanctions | against Rhodesia | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deny | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lead | past | country access to the sea | Ian's government | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent government=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | undertake | to-infinitive | Ian's government not said here | overt actions | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | oppose | to-infinitive | Ian's government not said here | the country | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient | ||||
| 7 | decide | Mozambique | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=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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