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title: By 1905, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa,… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1905, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which remains the country's most important crop. Who acts: São, largest producer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 78

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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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By 1905, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which remains the country's most important crop.

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**Who acts:** São, largest producer · **What happens:** become, remain · **To what, where:** largest producer, important crop

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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, largest producer), 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:78
# text = By 1905, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which remains the country's most important crop.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | São | the world's largest producer of cocoa |  |  |  | by 1905 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the world's largest producer of cocoa | the country's important crop |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crop=Attribute |

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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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