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title: In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and maintains close ties with other Portuguese-speaking countries. Who acts: Mozambique. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 184

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From Wikipedia, [«Mozambique»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique), 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 same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and maintains close ties with other Portuguese-speaking countries.

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**Who acts:** Mozambique · **What happens:** become, maintain, speak · **To what, where:** founding member, close ties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mozambique), 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:Mozambique:184
# text = In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and maintains close ties with other Portuguese-speaking countries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Language	Language	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	maintains	maintain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Mozambique | a founding member and the first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries |  |  | year |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **maintain** | present | Mozambique *not said here* | close ties |  |  |  | with other speaking countries | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tie=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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, «Mozambique», 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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