Tanzania, sentence 185
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.
It has held power since independence in 1961, and is the longest-serving ruling party in Africa.
What happens: hold, serve, rule, be · To what, where: Constitution, 1961, serving ruling party, Africa
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 5 | since | since | ADP | _ | 6 independence | case |
| 6 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1961 | case |
| 8 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 held | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 party | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 party | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 party | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 13 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 serving | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 longest | punct |
| 15 | serving | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 party | amod |
| 16 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 party | amod |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Africa | case |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 party | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · perfect · passive | Constitution | 1961 | since independence | power obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme power=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | serve | gerund | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the serving ruling party | Africa | tree rules |
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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