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title: The name Angola is based on the Portuguese colonial name Reino de An… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Angola is based on the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais's 1571 charter. Who acts: Reino, Dias Novais. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Angola» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Angola, sentence 20

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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 name Angola is based on the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais's 1571 charter.

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**Who acts:** Reino, Dias Novais · **What happens:** base, appear, charter · **To what, where:** name, Portuguese colonial name, early

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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 (Reino, Dias Novais), 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:20
# text = The name Angola is based on the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais's 1571 charter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Angola	Angola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	Reino	Reino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Angola	Angola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Angola	Angola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	Paulo	Paulo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Dias	Dias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Novais	Novais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	1571	1571	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	charter	charter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | the name |  | the Portuguese colonial name |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on name=Source |
| 2 | **appear** | past | Reino | early |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location early=Theme |
| 3 | **charter** |  | Dias Novais |  |  |  |  |  | nom charter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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