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title: Among popular dances are the Sega, with hip-swaying and shuffling of… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: Among popular dances are the Sega, with hip-swaying and shuffling of the feet, and the Moutya, a dance dating back to the days of slavery, when it was often used to express strong emotions and discontent. Who acts: dance. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Seychelles, sentence 261

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), 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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Among popular dances are the Sega, with hip-swaying and shuffling of the feet, and the Moutya, a dance dating back to the days of slavery, when it was often used to express strong emotions and discontent.

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**Who acts:** dance · **What happens:** be, sway, shuffle, date back, use, express · **To what, where:** Sega, slavery, strong emotions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance), 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:Seychelles:261
# text = Among popular dances are the Sega, with hip-swaying and shuffling of the feet, and the Moutya, a dance dating back to the days of slavery, when it was often used to express strong emotions and discontent.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sega	Sega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shuffling	shuffle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Moutya	Moutya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	emotions	emotion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Sega and the Moutya |  |  |  | among popular dances; the Moutya *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sway** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hip *compound* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shuffle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of foot=Trajectory |
| 4 | **date back** | gerund | a dance *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | past · passive |  | slavery |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **express** | to-infinitive |  | strong emotions and discontent |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Theme |

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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, «Seychelles», 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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