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title: São Tomé and Príncipe imports mostly machines, mainly electric gener… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: São Tomé and Príncipe imports mostly machines, mainly electric generators and computers, and food, mainly wine, wheat, rice, milk, and soy oil, from Portugal. 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 273

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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 imports mostly machines, mainly electric generators and computers, and food, mainly wine, wheat, rice, milk, and soy oil, from Portugal.

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**Who acts:** São · **What happens:** import · **To what, where:** machines

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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:273
# text = São Tomé and Príncipe imports mostly machines, mainly electric generators and computers, and food, mainly wine, wheat, rice, milk, and soy oil, from Portugal.
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	imports	import	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	generators	generator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	soy	soy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **import** | present | São and Príncipe | machines |  |  |  | electric generators and computers *obl*; food and wine and wheat and rice and milk and soy oil and Portugal *parataxis* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=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, «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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