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title: One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was Tippu Tip. Who acts: One. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 78

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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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One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was Tippu Tip.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Tippu Tip

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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 (One), 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:78
# text = One of the most infamous slave traders on the East African coast was Tippu Tip.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	infamous	infamous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	Tippu	Tippu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tip	Tip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | One of the infamous slave traders on the East African coast | Tippu Tip |  |  |  |  | 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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