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title: The large enslaved population also proved difficult to control, with… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: The large enslaved population also proved difficult to control, with Portugal unable to invest many resources in the effort. Who acts: large enslaved population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 75

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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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The large enslaved population also proved difficult to control, with Portugal unable to invest many resources in the effort.

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**Who acts:** large enslaved population · **What happens:** enslave, prove, control, invest · **To what, where:** many resources, effort

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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 (large enslaved population), 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:75
# text = The large enslaved population also proved difficult to control, with Portugal unable to invest many resources in the effort.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	invest	invest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prove** | past | the large enslaved population |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **control** | to-infinitive | the large enslaved population *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **invest** | to-infinitive | the large enslaved population *not said here* | many resources |  | the effort |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent resource=Goal |

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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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