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title: São Tomé and Príncipe outperforms the sub-Saharan Africa average on… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: São Tomé and Príncipe outperforms the sub-Saharan Africa average on the Human Development Index and has made great progress on most social indicators. Who acts: São. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 235

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From Wikipedia, [«São Tomé and Príncipe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Tomé_and_Príncipe), 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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São Tomé and Príncipe outperforms the sub-Saharan Africa average on the Human Development Index and has made great progress on most social indicators.

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**Who acts:** São · **What happens:** outperform, make · **To what, where:** sub-Saharan Africa average, Human Development Index, great progress, most social indicators

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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 (São), 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_and_Príncipe:235
# text = São Tomé and Príncipe outperforms the sub-Saharan Africa average on the Human Development Index and has made great progress on most social indicators.
1	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Príncipe	Príncipe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	outperforms	outperform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sub-Saharan	sub-saharan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
22	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	indicators	indicator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outperform** | present | São and Príncipe | the sub-Saharan Africa average |  | the Human Development Index |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | São and Príncipe *not said here* | great progress |  | most social indicators |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product |

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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 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.

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