São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 76

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.

Sugar cultivation thus declined over the next 100 years, and by the mid-17th century, São Tomé had become primarily a transit point for ships engaged in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas.

Who acts: Sugar cultivation, São · What happens: decline, become, engage · To what, where: transit point, ships, slave trade

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 (Sugar cultivation, São), 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	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cultivation	compound
2	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declined	nsubj
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 declined	advmod
4	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 years	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 declined	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 become	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 century	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 century	det
14	mid-17th	mid-17th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	15 century	amod
15	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 century	punct
17	São	São	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 become	nsubj
18	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 São	flat
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 declined	conj
21	primarily	primarily	ADV	_	24 point	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 point	det
23	transit	transit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 point	compound
24	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 ships	case
26	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 point	nmod
27	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 ships	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 trade	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trade	det
30	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trade	compound
31	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 engaged	obl
32	between	between	ADP	_	34 Africa	case
33	continental	continental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Africa	amod
34	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 trade	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Americas	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Americas	det
37	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 Africa	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	Sugar cultivation		year	thus property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	become	past · perfect	São	a transit point for ships	century		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	engage	participle		ships not said here		in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=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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São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 76