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title: Correspondence by King Afonso documents the purchase and sale of sla… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: Correspondence by King Afonso documents the purchase and sale of slaves within the country. Who acts: Correspondence, King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Angola» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Angola, sentence 49

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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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Correspondence by King Afonso documents the purchase and sale of slaves within the country.

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**Who acts:** Correspondence, King · **What happens:** document, correspond · **To what, where:** purchase

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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 (Correspondence, King), 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:49
# text = Correspondence by King Afonso documents the purchase and sale of slaves within the country.
1	Correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Afonso	Afonso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	documents	document	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **document** | present | Correspondence by King | the purchase and sale of slaves |  |  |  | within the country | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Theme |
| 2 | **correspond** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom correspondence «communication intransitive»: by=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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