Tanzania, sentence 86
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 was the subject of a bloody repression, which combined with famine caused 300,000 deaths among the population, out of a Tanganyikan population of about four million.
Who acts: Rebellion, bloody repression, famine · What happens: be, combine, cause · To what, where: subject, Tanganyikan population, 300,000 deaths
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 (Rebellion, bloody repression, famine), 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 | 4 subject | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 subject | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 subject | det |
| 4 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 repression | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 repression | det |
| 7 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 repression | amod |
| 8 | repression | repression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 subject | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 combined | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 combined | nsubj |
| 11 | combined | combine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 repression | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 famine | case |
| 13 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 combined | obl |
| 14 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 famine | acl |
| 15 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 deaths | nummod |
| 16 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 caused | obj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 population | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 population | det |
| 19 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caused | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 population | punct |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 population | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 population | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 population | det |
| 24 | Tanganyikan | Tanganyikan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 population | compound |
| 25 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 combined | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 million | case |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 million | advmod |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 million | compound |
| 29 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 population | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rebellion | the subject | of a bloody repression | tree rules | |||
| 2 | combine | past | a bloody repression | a Tanganyikan population of four million | with famine | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with famine=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | cause | participle | famine not said here | 300,000 deaths | among the population | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=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.
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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