Mozambique, sentence 75
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.
Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued from 1977 to 1992 by a long and violent civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime.
Who acts: long civil war · What happens: start, plague · To what, where: country, 1977
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 (long civil war), 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 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 plagued | advcl |
| 2 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 1 Starting | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 independence | case |
| 4 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Starting | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plagued | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 plagued | aux:pass |
| 9 | plagued | plague | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 1977 | case |
| 11 | 1977 | 1977 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 plagued | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 1992 | case |
| 13 | 1992 | 1992 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1977 | nmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 war | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 war | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 war | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 violent | cc |
| 18 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 long | conj |
| 19 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 war | amod |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plagued | obl |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 forces | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forces | det |
| 23 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forces | compound |
| 24 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 war | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Resistance | case |
| 26 | anti-communist | anti-communist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Resistance | amod |
| 27 | Mozambican | Mozambican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Resistance | compound |
| 28 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Resistance | amod |
| 29 | Resistance | Resistance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forces | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 RENAMO | punct |
| 31 | RENAMO | RENAMO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 militias | compound |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 RENAMO | punct |
| 33 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 militias | compound |
| 34 | militias | militia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Resistance | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 regime | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 regime | det |
| 37 | FRELIMO | FRELIMO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 regime | compound |
| 38 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 militias | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plagued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a long civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime not said here | after independence | shortly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | plague | past · passive | a long civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime | the country | 1977 to 1992 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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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