Harare, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Harare», 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.
The city initially boomed under a wave of optimism and investment that followed the country's independence in 1980.
Who acts: investment · What happens: boom, follow, wave · To what, where: city, wave, independence, 1980, optimism
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Harare». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (investment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 4 boomed | advmod |
| 4 | boomed | boom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 wave | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wave | det |
| 7 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boomed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 optimism | case |
| 9 | optimism | optimism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wave | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 investment | cc |
| 11 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wave | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 investment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 independence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 country | case |
| 17 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1980 | case |
| 19 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 followed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boom | participle · passive | the city | a wave of optimism and investment | initially property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | investment | the country's independence | 1980 | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent independence=Theme in 1980=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wave | optimism | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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