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title: Sugar cultivation thus declined over the next 100 years, and by the… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: Sugar cultivation thus declined over the next 100 years, and by the mid-17th century, São Tomé had become primarily a transit point for ships engaged in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas. Who acts: Sugar cultivation, São. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» wi
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 76

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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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Sugar cultivation thus declined over the next 100 years, and by the mid-17th century, São Tomé had become primarily a transit point for ships engaged in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas.

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**Who acts:** Sugar cultivation, São · **What happens:** decline, become, engage · **To what, where:** transit point, ships, slave trade

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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 (Sugar cultivation, 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:76
# text = Sugar cultivation thus declined over the next 100 years, and by the mid-17th century, São Tomé had become primarily a transit point for ships engaged in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas.
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mid-17th	mid-17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
21	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | past | Sugar cultivation |  |  |  | year | thus *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | São | a transit point for ships |  |  | century |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **engage** | participle |  | ships *not said here* |  |  |  | in the slave trade between continental Africa and the Americas *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=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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