Mozambique, sentence 4
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.
Between the 7th and 11th centuries, a series of Swahili port towns developed in the area, which contributed to the development of a distinct Swahili culture and dialect.
Who acts: area · What happens: develop, contribute · To what, where: Swahili port towns, area, development, distinct Swahili culture
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 (area), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centuries | det |
| 3 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 centuries | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 11th | cc |
| 5 | 11th | 11th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 7th | conj |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 series | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 series | det |
| 9 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centuries | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 towns | case |
| 11 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 towns | compound |
| 12 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 towns | compound |
| 13 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 series | nmod |
| 14 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 towns | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 area | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 area | det |
| 17 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 developed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 contributed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 contributed | nsubj |
| 20 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 area | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 development | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 development | det |
| 23 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contributed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 culture | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 culture | det |
| 26 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 culture | amod |
| 27 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 culture | compound |
| 28 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 development | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dialect | cc |
| 30 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 culture | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 centuries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | participle | Swahili port towns not said here | the area | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location | ||||
| 2 | contribute | past | the area | the development of a distinct Swahili culture and dialect | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to development=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | develop | a distinct Swahili culture and dialect | nom development «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.
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