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title: The languages in Angola are those originally spoken by the different… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: The languages in Angola are those originally spoken by the different ethnic groups and Portuguese, introduced during the Portuguese colonial era. Who acts: different ethnic groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Angola» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Angola, sentence 384

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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 languages in Angola are those originally spoken by the different ethnic groups and Portuguese, introduced during the Portuguese colonial era.

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**Who acts:** different ethnic groups · **What happens:** speak, introduce · **To what, where:** languages, different ethnic groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (different ethnic groups), 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:384
# text = The languages in Angola are those originally spoken by the different ethnic groups and Portuguese, introduced during the Portuguese colonial era.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Angola	Angola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | the different ethnic groups | the languages in Angola |  |  |  | those *nsubj:pass*; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  | the different ethnic groups *not said here* |  |  | during the Portuguese colonial era |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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