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title: Picking up momentum in the 1960s, events moved quickly after the ove… — São Tomé and Príncipe · tree and pragmatics
description: Picking up momentum in the 1960s, events moved quickly after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974. Who acts: events. A sentence of Wikipedia's «São Tomé and Príncipe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 87

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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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Picking up momentum in the 1960s, events moved quickly after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974.

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**Who acts:** events · **What happens:** pick up, move, overthrow · **To what, where:** momentum, 1960s, Caetano dictatorship

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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 (events), 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:87
# text = Picking up momentum in the 1960s, events moved quickly after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974.
1	Picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	momentum	momentum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Caetano	Caetano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dictatorship	dictatorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | gerund | events *not said here* | momentum |  | the 1960s |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent momentum=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | past | events |  |  |  | after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal; april | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **overthrow** |  |  | the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act 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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