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title: Kongolese kings needed this influence to garner support from Europea… — Angola · tree and pragmatics
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# Angola, sentence 63

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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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Kongolese kings needed this influence to garner support from European powers for quelling internal rebellions.

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**Who acts:** Kongolese kings · **What happens:** need, garner, quell · **To what, where:** influence, support, European powers, internal rebellions

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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 (Kongolese kings), 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:63
# text = Kongolese kings needed this influence to garner support from European powers for quelling internal rebellions.
1	Kongolese	kongolese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	garner	garner	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	quelling	quell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rebellions	rebellion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | Kongolese kings | this influence |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot influence=Theme |
| 2 | **garner** | to-infinitive | Kongolese kings *not said here* | support |  | European powers |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **quell** | gerund | Kongolese kings *not said here* | internal rebellions |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebellion=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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