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title: In the 1751, between 5,000 and 10,000 slaves were annually sold. — Luanda · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1751, between 5,000 and 10,000 slaves were annually sold. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Luanda» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Luanda, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Luanda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda), 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 the 1751, between 5,000 and 10,000 slaves were annually sold.

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**What happens:** sell · **To what, where:** 10,000 slaves, 1751

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luanda». 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:Luanda:32
# text = In the 1751, between 5,000 and 10,000 slaves were annually sold.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1751	1751	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past · passive |  | 10,000 slaves |  | the 1751 between 5,000 |  | annually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «Luanda», 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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