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The dates of European arrival are sometimes given as 21 December (St Thomas's Day) 1471, for São Tomé; and 17 January (St Antony's Day) 1472, for Príncipe, though other sources cite different years around that time. **Who acts:** other sources · **What happens:** give, cite · **To what, where:** dates This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other sources), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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_and_Príncipe:19 # text = The dates of European arrival are sometimes given as 21 December (St Thomas's Day) 1471, for São Tomé; and 17 January (St Antony's Day) 1472, for Príncipe, though other sources cite different years around that time. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 8 advmod _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 11 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 14 Thomas Thomas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 1471 1471 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 São São PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 22 Tomé Tomé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Antony Antony PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 1472 1472 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Príncipe Príncipe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 though though SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 cite cite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 42 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 around around ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | the dates of European arrival | | | St Antony's Day 17 January and Príncipe | as 21 December; for São; sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for são=Asset | | 2 | **cite** | present | other sources | | | | time; year | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «São Tomé and Príncipe», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/São_Tomé_and_Príncipe/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/São_Tomé_and_Príncipe/20/) - ↑ back to [São Tomé and Príncipe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/São_Tomé_and_Príncipe/)