São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 75
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.
The large enslaved population also proved difficult to control, with Portugal unable to invest many resources in the effort.
Who acts: large enslaved population · What happens: enslave, prove, control, invest · To what, where: many resources, effort
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 (large enslaved population), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 population | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 population | amod |
| 3 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 population | amod |
| 4 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proved | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 proved | advmod |
| 6 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proved | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 control | mark |
| 9 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 difficult | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 unable | mark |
| 12 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 unable | compound |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proved | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 invest | mark |
| 15 | invest | invest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 resources | amod |
| 17 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 invest | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 effort | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 effort | det |
| 20 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 invest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | prove | past | the large enslaved population | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | control | to-infinitive | the large enslaved population not said here | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | invest | to-infinitive | the large enslaved population not said here | many resources | the effort | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent resource=Goal |
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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