Mozambique, sentence 36
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.
From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts displaced the Arabic commercial and military hegemony, becoming regular ports of call on the new European sea route to the east, the first steps in what was to become a process of colonisation.
Who acts: Portuguese trading posts · What happens: displace, become, process · To what, where: Arabic commercial hegemony, 1500, regular ports, new European sea route, process, colonisation
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 (Portuguese trading posts), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 1500 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 1500 | advmod |
| 3 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 displaced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1500 | punct |
| 5 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posts | amod |
| 6 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 posts | compound |
| 7 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 displaced | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forts | cc |
| 9 | forts | fort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 posts | conj |
| 10 | displaced | displace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hegemony | det |
| 12 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hegemony | compound |
| 13 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hegemony | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 military | cc |
| 15 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 commercial | conj |
| 16 | hegemony | hegemony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 displaced | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 becoming | punct |
| 18 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 displaced | advcl |
| 19 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ports | amod |
| 20 | ports | port | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 becoming | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 call | case |
| 22 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ports | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 route | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 route | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 route | amod |
| 26 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 route | amod |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 route | compound |
| 28 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 becoming | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 east | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 east | det |
| 31 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 route | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 steps | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 steps | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 steps | amod |
| 35 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 route | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 what | case |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 steps | nmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 become | mark |
| 40 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 was | xcomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 process | det |
| 42 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 become | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 colonisation | case |
| 44 | colonisation | colonisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 process | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 displaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displace | past | Portuguese trading posts and forts | the Arabic commercial hegemony | 1500 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | Portuguese trading posts and forts not said here | regular ports of call | the new European sea route to the east and the first steps in the new European sea route to the east and the first steps in the new European sea route | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient port=Result | |||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | Portuguese trading posts and forts not said here | a process of colonisation | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | process | colonisation | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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