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title: Slavery in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact. — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: Slavery in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 42

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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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Slavery in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact.

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**To what, where:** pre-dated European contact

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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: 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:42
# text = Slavery in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact.
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	pre-dated	pre-dated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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