Zimbabwe, sentence 103
From Wikipedia, «Zimbabwe», 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.
On 11 December 1979, the Rhodesian House of Assembly voted 90 to nil to revert to British colonial status.
Who acts: Rhodesian House · What happens: vote, nil, revert · To what, where: 90, 11
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhodesian House), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 11 | case |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 voted | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1979 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 11 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 House | det |
| 7 | Rhodesian | Rhodesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 House | compound |
| 8 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 voted | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Assembly | case |
| 10 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 House | nmod |
| 11 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 voted | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 nil | mark |
| 14 | nil | nil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 voted | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 revert | mark |
| 16 | revert | revert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nil | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 status | case |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 status | amod |
| 19 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 status | amod |
| 20 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 revert | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 voted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | past | the Rhodesian House of Assembly | 90 | 11 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 90=Theme | |||
| 2 | nil | to-infinitive | the Rhodesian House of Assembly not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | revert | to-infinitive | the Rhodesian House of Assembly not said here | to British colonial status result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to status=Result |
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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