Mozambique, sentence 42
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.
Slavery in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact.
To what, where: pre-dated European contact
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: 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 | Slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contact | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Mozambique | case |
| 3 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Slavery | nmod |
| 4 | pre-dated | pre-dated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 contact | amod |
| 5 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 contact | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 European | punct |
| 7 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 contact | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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