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title: Bantu-speaking settlers were present on the islands from the beginni… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
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# Comoros, sentence 30

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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Bantu-speaking settlers were present on the islands from the beginnings of settlement.

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**What happens:** speak, present, begin · **To what, where:** speaking settlers, islands, settlement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». 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:Comoros:30
# text = Bantu-speaking settlers were present on the islands from the beginnings of settlement.
1	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	present	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beginnings	beginning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Bantu *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **present** | past · passive |  | speaking settlers |  | the islands from the beginnings of settlement |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | settlement |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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, «Comoros», 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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