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From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts displaced the Arabic commercial and military hegemony, becoming regular ports of call on the new European sea route to the east, the first steps in what was to become a process of colonisation. **Who acts:** Portuguese trading posts · **What happens:** displace, become, process · **To what, where:** Arabic commercial hegemony, 1500, regular ports, new European sea route, process, colonisation 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 (Portuguese trading posts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:36 # text = From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts displaced the Arabic commercial and military hegemony, becoming regular ports of call on the new European sea route to the east, the first steps in what was to become a process of colonisation. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 1500 1500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 forts fort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 displaced displace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 13 commercial commercial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 hegemony hegemony NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nmod _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 colonisation colonisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **displace** | past | Portuguese trading posts and forts | the Arabic commercial hegemony | | 1500 | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | gerund | Portuguese trading posts and forts *not said here* | regular ports of call | | the new European sea route to the east and the first steps in the new European sea route to the east and the first steps in the new European sea route | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient port=Result | | 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | Portuguese trading posts and forts *not said here* | a process of colonisation | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **process** | | | colonisation | | | | | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mozambique/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mozambique/37/) - ↑ back to [Mozambique](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mozambique/)