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title: Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued from 19… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued from 1977 to 1992 by a long and violent civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime. Who acts: long civil war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambiqu
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# Mozambique, sentence 75

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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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Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued from 1977 to 1992 by a long and violent civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime.

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**Who acts:** long civil war · **What happens:** start, plague · **To what, where:** country, 1977

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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 (long civil war), 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:75
# text = Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued from 1977 to 1992 by a long and violent civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime.
1	Starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	plagued	plague	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	anti-communist	anti-communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	Mozambican	Mozambican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Resistance	Resistance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	RENAMO	RENAMO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	militias	militia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	FRELIMO	FRELIMO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund | a long civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance  RENAMO rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime *not said here* |  |  |  | after independence | shortly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **plague** | past · passive | a long civil war between the opposition forces of anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance  RENAMO rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime | the country |  | 1977 to 1992 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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