Dodoma, sentence 22
From Wikipedia, «Dodoma», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Its location in a rural environment was seen as the ujamaa heartland and therefore appropriate for a ujamaa capital that could see and learn from neighbouring villages and maintain a close relationship to the land.
Who acts: ujamaa capital · What happens: see, learn, neighbour, maintain · To what, where: location, neighbouring villages, close relationship
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dodoma». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ujamaa capital), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 location | nmod:poss |
| 2 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 environment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 environment | det |
| 5 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 environment | amod |
| 6 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 location | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 heartland | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heartland | det |
| 11 | ujamaa | ujamaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heartland | compound |
| 12 | heartland | heartland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appropriate | cc |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 appropriate | advmod |
| 15 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seen | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 capital | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 capital | det |
| 18 | ujamaa | ujamaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 capital | compound |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appropriate | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 capital | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 learn | cc |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 villages | case |
| 26 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 villages | amod |
| 27 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 learn | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 maintain | cc |
| 29 | maintain | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 relationship | det |
| 31 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 relationship | amod |
| 32 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 maintain | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 land | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 land | det |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 relationship | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Region's location in a rural environment | as the ujamaa heartland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as heartland=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | could | a ujamaa capital | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | a ujamaa capital not said here | neighbouring villages | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from village=Source | ||||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | maintain | present | a ujamaa capital not said here | a close relationship | to the land | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme |
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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