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title: The Makonde are known for their wood carving and elaborate masks, wh… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: The Makonde are known for their wood carving and elaborate masks, which are commonly used in traditional dances. Who acts: wood. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 344

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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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The Makonde are known for their wood carving and elaborate masks, which are commonly used in traditional dances.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** know, carve, use · **To what, where:** Makonde, wood, traditional dances

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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 (wood), 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:344
# text = The Makonde are known for their wood carving and elaborate masks, which are commonly used in traditional dances.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Makonde	Makonde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	carving	carve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	masks	mask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the Makonde |  |  |  | for Makonde's wood and elaborate masks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carve** | gerund | Makonde's wood and elaborate masks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | Makonde's wood and elaborate masks |  | traditional dances |  | commonly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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