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title: Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to… — Porto-Novo · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil. Who acts: Many Afro Brazilians, Brazilians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Porto-Novo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Porto-Novo, sentence 21

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From Wikipedia, [«Porto-Novo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto-Novo), 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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Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil.

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**Who acts:** Many Afro Brazilians, Brazilians · **What happens:** settle, follow, return · **To what, where:** Porto

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Porto-Novo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Afro Brazilians, Brazilians), 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:Porto-Novo:21
# text = Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Afro	Afro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Brazilians	Brazilian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Porto	Porto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Novo	Novo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | Many Afro Brazilians |  |  | Porto and Novo |  | follow Brazilians's return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in porto=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** |  | Brazilians *= brazilian* |  |  |  | after emancipation in Brazil | to Africa | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl after=obl |

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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, «Porto-Novo», 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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