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title: The slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably so… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
description: The slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably sole, economic sector. Who acts: slave trade. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Angola» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Angola, sentence 55

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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 slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably sole, economic sector.

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**Who acts:** slave trade · **What happens:** become

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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 (slave trade), 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:55
# text = The slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably sole, economic sector.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Kongo	Kongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	arguably	arguably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the slave trade |  |  |  |  | increasingly, primary *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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