Mozambique, sentence 41

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.

These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mozambique was largely left to be administered by prazeiros, the grant holders, while central authorities in Portugal concentrated their direct exercise of power on, in their view, the more important Portuguese possessions in Asia and the Americas.

Who acts: land, prazeiros, central authorities, authorities · What happens: grant, tie, leave, administer, concentrate, exercise · To what, where: tied emigrants, settlements, inland Mozambique, direct exercise, power

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 (land, prazeiros, central authorities, authorities), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grants	nsubj
3	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 emigrants	amod
5	emigrants	emigrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grants	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 settlements	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 settlements	nmod:poss
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grants	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
11	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mozambique	amod
12	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 left	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
14	largely	largely	ADV	_	15 left	advmod
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grants	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	18 administered	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 administered	aux:pass
18	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 left	xcomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 prazeiros	case
20	prazeiros	prazeiro	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 administered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 holders	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 holders	det
23	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 holders	compound
24	holders	holder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 prazeiros	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 concentrated	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 concentrated	mark
27	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 authorities	amod
28	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 concentrated	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Portugal	case
30	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 authorities	nmod
31	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	advcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 exercise	nmod:poss
33	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 exercise	amod
34	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 concentrated	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 power	case
36	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 exercise	nmod
37	on	on	ADV	_	31 concentrated	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 view	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 view	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 view	nmod:poss
41	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 concentrated	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 possessions	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 possessions	det
44	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 important	advmod
45	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 possessions	amod
46	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 possessions	amod
47	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 view	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 Asia	case
49	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 possessions	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Americas	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Americas	det
52	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	49 Asia	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grant	present	this land	tied emigrants	to emigrants's settlements goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent emigrant=Theme to settlement=Goal
2	tie	participle				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past · passive		inland Mozambique	largely property	tree rules
4	administer	to-infinitive · passive	prazeiros and the grant holders			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	concentrate	past	central authorities in Portugal	authorities's direct exercise of power	authorities's view and the important Portuguese possessions in Asia and the Americas parataxis	tree rules
6	exercise		authorities = authority	power		nom exercise «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
7	view		authorities = authority			nom view «cognition 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.

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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Mozambique, sentence 41