---
title: The lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north was later a vassal of the… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: The lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north was later a vassal of the Kingdom of Kongo. Who acts: lesser Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Angola» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Angola/35/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Angola](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Angola/) / 35

# Angola, sentence 35

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north was later a vassal of the Kingdom of Kongo.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** lesser Kingdom · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** vassal

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (lesser Kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:35
# text = The lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north was later a vassal of the Kingdom of Kongo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kakongo	Kakongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vassal	vassal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kongo	Kongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north | a vassal |  |  |  | of the Kingdom of Kongo; late *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Angola/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Angola/36/)
- ↑ back to [Angola](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Angola/)