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title: Sub-Saharan Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal l… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: Sub-Saharan Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century and continuing into the 19th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombia, sentence 375

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia), 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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Sub-Saharan Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century and continuing into the 19th century.

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**What happens:** bring, begin, continue · **To what, where:** Sub-Saharan Africans

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Colombia:375
# text = Sub-Saharan Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century and continuing into the 19th century.
1	Sub-Saharan	sub-saharan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | Sub-Saharan Africans |  |  |  | as slaves; the coastal lowlands *conj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | gerund |  |  |  |  | century | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  |  | century |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Colombia», 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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