São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 56
From Wikipedia, «São Tomé and Príncipe», 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.
However, this more relaxed slave system did not last long following the introduction of plantations.
Who acts: relaxed slave system · What happens: not last, follow, introduce · To what, where: introduction, plantations
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relaxed slave system), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 last | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 more | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 relaxed | advmod |
| 5 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 system | amod |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 system | compound |
| 7 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 last | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 last | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 last | advmod |
| 10 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 last | xcomp |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 long | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 introduction | det |
| 14 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 following | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 plantations | case |
| 16 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 introduction | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not last | past · do-support | relaxed slave system | however, long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | relaxed slave system not said here | the introduction of plantations | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent introduction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | introduce | plantations | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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