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title: In addition, the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Omani and… — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition, the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Omani and Zanzibari traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists. Who acts: Portuguese, British abolitionists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 89

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From Wikipedia, [«Kenya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya), 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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In addition, the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Omani and Zanzibari traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese, British abolitionists · **What happens:** start, buy, interrupt, trade · **To what, where:** addition, slaves, Omani traders, transatlantic slave trade

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kenya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, British abolitionists), 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:Kenya:89
# text = In addition, the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Omani and Zanzibari traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Zanzibari	Zanzibari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	interruption	interruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	transatlantic	transatlantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	abolitionists	abolitionist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Portuguese |  |  | addition |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | the Portuguese *not said here* | slaves |  | the Omani traders in response to the interruption of the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent slave=Theme from trader=Source |
| 3 | **interrupt** |  |  | the transatlantic slave trade by British abolitionists |  |  |  |  | nom interruption «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **trade** |  | British abolitionists |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: 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, «Kenya», 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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