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title: As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa,… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa, many clandestine political movements were established in support of Mozambican independence. Who acts: communist ideologies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 61

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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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As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa, many clandestine political movements were established in support of Mozambican independence.

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**Who acts:** communist ideologies · **What happens:** spread out, establish, support · **To what, where:** Africa, many clandestine political movements, support, Mozambican independence

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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 (communist ideologies), 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:61
# text = As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa, many clandestine political movements were established in support of Mozambican independence.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	anti-colonial	anti-colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	ideologies	ideology	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	clandestine	clandestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Mozambican	Mozambican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | present | communist ideologies |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across africa=Destination |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | many clandestine political movements |  | support of Mozambican independence |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **support** |  |  | Mozambican independence |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: of=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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