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title: From 1532 to 1536, São Tomé sent an annual average of 342 slaves to… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1532 to 1536, São Tomé sent an annual average of 342 slaves to the Antilles. 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 44

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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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From 1532 to 1536, São Tomé sent an annual average of 342 slaves to the Antilles.

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**Who acts:** São · **What happens:** send, average · **To what, where:** annual average, Antilles, 1532, 342 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:44
# text = From 1532 to 1536, São Tomé sent an annual average of 342 slaves to the Antilles.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1532	1532	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1536	1536	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	342	342	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Antilles	Antilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | São | a annual average of 342 slaves | the Antilles | 1532 to 1536 |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent average=Theme from 1532=Initial\_Location to antilles=Destination |
| 2 | **average** |  |  | 342 slaves |  |  |  |  | nom average «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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