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title: President Chissano praised the work and role of the UMC to more than… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: President Chissano praised the work and role of the UMC to more than 10,000 people who attended the ceremony. Who acts: President, 10,000 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 301

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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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President Chissano praised the work and role of the UMC to more than 10,000 people who attended the ceremony.

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**Who acts:** President, 10,000 people · **What happens:** praise, attend · **To what, where:** work, ceremony

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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 (President, 10,000 people), 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:301
# text = President Chissano praised the work and role of the UMC to more than 10,000 people who attended the ceremony.
1	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Chissano	Chissano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	UMC	UMC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | President | the work and role of the UMC |  |  |  | to 10,000 people | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent work=Theme to people=be' |
| 2 | **attend** | past | 10,000 people | the ceremony |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ceremony=Goal |

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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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