Tanzania, sentence 116
From Wikipedia, «Tanzania», 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.
Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya.
Who acts: ethnic divisions · What happens: remain, compare · To what, where: Tanzania, immediate neighbour
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 (ethnic divisions), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 obstacle | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 obstacle | det |
| 3 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obstacle | punct |
| 5 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 divisions | amod |
| 6 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remained | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Tanzania | case |
| 10 | Tanzania | Tanzania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 compared | advmod |
| 12 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 remained | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 rest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compared | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 continent | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 continent | det |
| 18 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 neighbour | punct |
| 20 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 23 neighbour | advmod |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 neighbour | amod |
| 23 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kenya | punct |
| 25 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 neighbour | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | ethnic divisions | Tanzania | despite this obstacle; rare property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tanzania=Location | |||
| 2 | compare | participle | ethnic divisions not said here | continent's immediate neighbour | to the rest of the continent | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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