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title: Dances are usually intricate, highly developed traditions throughout… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: Dances are usually intricate, highly developed traditions throughout Mozambique. Who acts: Dances. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 351

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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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Dances are usually intricate, highly developed traditions throughout Mozambique.

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**Who acts:** Dances · **What happens:** be, develop · **To what, where:** traditions

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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 (Dances), 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:351
# text = Dances are usually intricate, highly developed traditions throughout Mozambique.
1	Dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	intricate	intricate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Dances |  |  |  |  | intricate, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | participle | Dances *not said here* | traditions |  |  | throughout Mozambique | highly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Product |

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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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