Mozambique, sentence 55
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.
Although slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique, at the end of the 19th century the chartered companies enacted a forced labour policy and supplied cheap—often forced—African labour to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa.
Who acts: chartered companies, forced labour policy · What happens: abolish, charter, enact, force, supply · To what, where: Mozambique, forced labour policy, end, African labour
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 (chartered companies, forced labour policy), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 2 slavery | case |
| 2 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abolished | obl |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 abolished | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 abolished | aux:pass |
| 5 | legally | legally | ADV | _ | 6 abolished | advmod |
| 6 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Mozambique | case |
| 8 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 abolished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enacted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 15 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 century | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 companies | det |
| 18 | chartered | charter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 companies | amod |
| 19 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 enacted | nsubj |
| 20 | enacted | enact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 abolished | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 policy | det |
| 22 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 policy | amod |
| 23 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 policy | compound |
| 24 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enacted | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 supplied | cc |
| 26 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 policy | conj |
| 27 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 supplied | xcomp |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 forced | punct |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 forced | advmod |
| 30 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 policy | acl |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 labour | punct |
| 32 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 labour | amod |
| 33 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forced | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 mines | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mines | det |
| 36 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 forced | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 plantations | cc |
| 38 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 mines | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 colonies | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 colonies | det |
| 41 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 colonies | amod |
| 42 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 colonies | amod |
| 43 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 plantations | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Africa | cc |
| 45 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Africa | compound |
| 46 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 colonies | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past · perfect · passive | Mozambique | although slavery; legally property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | charter | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | enact | past | the chartered companies | a forced labour policy | at the end of the 19th century | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme | |||
| 4 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | supply | participle | the chartered companies not said here | cheap property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | force | participle | a forced labour policy not said here | African labour | to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa; often property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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