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title: Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (1926–2010) poet working in Po… — São Tomé · tree and pragmatics
description: Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (1926–2010) poet working in Portuguese, who also served in the Santomean government after independence Who acts: Alda, Espírito poet, Portuguese. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé, sentence 44

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From Wikipedia, [«São Tomé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Tomé), 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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Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (1926–2010) poet working in Portuguese, who also served in the Santomean government after independence

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**Who acts:** Alda, Espírito poet, Portuguese · **What happens:** do, work, serve

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alda, Espírito poet, Portuguese), 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:São_Tomé:44
# text = Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (1926–2010) poet working in Portuguese, who also served in the Santomean government after independence
1	Alda	Alda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Neves	Neves	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Graça	Graça	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Espírito	Espírito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
7	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Santomean	Santomean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Alda |  |  |  |  | Espírito poet *advcl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | Espírito poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Portuguese | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in portuguese=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | past | Portuguese |  |  |  | after independence | in the Santomean government | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in government=Attribute |

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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, «São Tomé», 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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