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title: However, the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern provin… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado beginning in October 2017 drastically shifted Mozambique's defense priorities. Who acts: outbreak. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 189

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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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However, the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado beginning in October 2017 drastically shifted Mozambique's defense priorities.

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**Who acts:** outbreak · **What happens:** begin, shift · **To what, where:** defense priorities

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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 (outbreak), 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:189
# text = However, the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado beginning in October 2017 drastically shifted Mozambique's defense priorities.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cabo	Cabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Delgado	Delgado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	drastically	drastically	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	shifted	shift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	priorities	priority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern province of Cabo *not said here* |  |  |  | october |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shift** | past | the outbreak of a violent insurgency in the northern province of Cabo | Mozambique's defense priorities |  |  |  | drastically, however *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer priority=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, «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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