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title: In 1525 São Tomé began trafficking slaves to the Spanish Americas, m… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1525 São Tomé began trafficking slaves to the Spanish Americas, mainly to the Caribbean and Brazil. 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 43

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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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In 1525 São Tomé began trafficking slaves to the Spanish Americas, mainly to the Caribbean and Brazil.

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**Who acts:** São · **What happens:** begin, traffic · **To what, where:** 1525, slaves

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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:43
# text = In 1525 São Tomé began trafficking slaves to the Spanish Americas, mainly to the Caribbean and Brazil.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1525	1525	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	trafficking	traffic	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | São |  |  | 1525 |  | the Caribbean and Brazil *conj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **traffic** | gerund | São *not said here* | slaves |  |  |  | to the Spanish Americas | tree rules |

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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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