Porto-Novo, sentence 21
From Wikipedia, «Porto-Novo», 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.
Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil.
Who acts: Many Afro Brazilians, Brazilians · What happens: settle, follow, return · To what, where: Porto
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Porto-Novo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Afro Brazilians, Brazilians), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Brazilians | amod |
| 2 | Afro | Afro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brazilians | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Afro | punct |
| 4 | Brazilians | Brazilian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 settled | nsubj |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Porto | case |
| 7 | Porto | Porto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 settled | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Novo | punct |
| 9 | Novo | Novo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Porto | conj |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 return | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 return | nmod:poss |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settled | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Africa | case |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 return | nmod |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 emancipation | case |
| 16 | emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Brazil | case |
| 18 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 emancipation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Many Afro Brazilians | Porto and Novo | follow Brazilians's return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in porto=Location | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | return | Brazilians = brazilian | after emancipation in Brazil | to Africa | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl after=obl |
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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