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title: Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns. Who acts: quantity, Trade. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 66

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From Wikipedia, [«Tanzania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania), 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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Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns.

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**Who acts:** quantity, Trade · **What happens:** increase, begin, be · **To what, where:** Trade, importance, one

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantity, Trade), 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:Tanzania:66
# text = Trade rapidly increased in importance and quantity beginning in the mid-8th century and by the close of the 10th century Zanzibar was one of the central Swahili trading towns.
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
2	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mid-8th	mid-8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Zanzibar	Zanzibar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	Swahili	Swahili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | participle |  | Trade *not said here* |  | importance and quantity and the close of the 10th century |  | rapidly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | gerund | quantity *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Trade | one |  |  |  | of the central Swahili trading towns | tree rules |

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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, «Tanzania», 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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