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title: The persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: The persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the MPLA to drive its opponents from Luanda and blunt an abortive intervention by Zairean and South African troops, which had deployed in a belated attempt to assist the FNLA and UNITA. Who acts: persistent buildup, MPLA. A sentence of 
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# Angola, sentence 138

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From Wikipedia, [«Angola»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the MPLA to drive its opponents from Luanda and blunt an abortive intervention by Zairean and South African troops, which had deployed in a belated attempt to assist the FNLA and UNITA.

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**Who acts:** persistent buildup, MPLA · **What happens:** allow, drive, deploy, belat, assist · **To what, where:** MPLA, opponents, Luanda, South African troops, belated attempt, FNLA

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Angola». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persistent buildup, MPLA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Angola:138
# text = The persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the MPLA to drive its opponents from Luanda and blunt an abortive intervention by Zairean and South African troops, which had deployed in a belated attempt to assist the FNLA and UNITA.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buildup	buildup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	Cuban	Cuban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	MPLA	MPLA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Luanda	Luanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	abortive	abortive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Zairean	zairean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	belated	belat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	FNLA	FNLA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	UNITA	UNITA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | the persistent buildup of Cuban military aid | the MPLA |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer mpla=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the MPLA *not said here* | buildup's opponents |  | Luanda and a blunt abortive intervention |  | by Zairean and South African troops | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent opponent=Theme from luanda=Destination by zairean=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **deploy** | past · perfect · passive |  | South African troops |  | a belated attempt |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **assist** | to-infinitive |  |  | the FNLA and UNITA |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fnla=Beneficiary |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Angola», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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