Tanzania, sentence 66
From Wikipedia, «Tanzania», 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.
Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns.
Who acts: quantity, Trade · What happens: increase, begin, be · To what, where: Trade, importance, one
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantity, Trade), 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 | Trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | nsubj |
| 2 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 increased | advmod |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Trade | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 importance | case |
| 5 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quantity | cc |
| 7 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 importance | conj |
| 8 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 quantity | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 century | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 century | det |
| 11 | mid-8th | mid-8th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 12 century | amod |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 close | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 close | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 close | det |
| 16 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 importance | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 century | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 century | det |
| 19 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 20 century | amod |
| 20 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | nmod |
| 21 | Zanzibar | Zanzibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 century | appos |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | cop |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 towns | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 towns | det |
| 26 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 towns | amod |
| 27 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 towns | compound |
| 28 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 towns | compound |
| 29 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | participle | Trade not said here | importance and quantity and the close of the 10th century | rapidly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | gerund | quantity not said here | century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Trade | one | of the central Swahili trading towns | tree rules |
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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