São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 57
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.
Throughout, slaves frequently ran away to the inhospitable mountain forests of the island's interior.
Who acts: slaves · What happens: run away
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 (slaves), 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 | Throughout | throughout | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throughout | punct |
| 3 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forests | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forests | det |
| 9 | inhospitable | inhospitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forests | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forests | compound |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 interior | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interior | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 island | case |
| 16 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forests | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | slaves | to the inhospitable mountain forests of the island's interior result; away, frequently, throughout property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result |
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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