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description: The two best known and most influential contemporary Mozambican artists are the painter Malangatana Ngwenya and the sculptor Alberto Chissano. Who acts: influential. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 349

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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 two best known and most influential contemporary Mozambican artists are the painter Malangatana Ngwenya and the sculptor Alberto Chissano.

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**Who acts:** influential · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** two best known painter

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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 (influential), 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:349
# text = The two best known and most influential contemporary Mozambican artists are the painter Malangatana Ngwenya and the sculptor Alberto Chissano.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
8	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Mozambican	mozambican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	Malangatana	Malangatana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Ngwenya	Ngwenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	Alberto	Alberto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	Chissano	Chissano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | influential | the two best known painter and the sculptor |  |  |  | contemporary Mozambican artists *nsubj*; Malangatana *appos*; the sculptor *conj* | tree rules |

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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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