Zimbabwe, sentence 111
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.
In 1980, Samora Machel told Mugabe that Zimbabwe was the "Jewel of Africa" but added: "Don't tarnish it!".
Who acts: Samora, Zimbabwe · What happens: tell, be, add, not tarnish · To what, where: Mugabe, 1980, Jewel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Samora, Zimbabwe), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1980 | case |
| 2 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 told | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1980 | punct |
| 4 | Samora | Samora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | Machel | Machel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Samora | flat |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mugabe | Mugabe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Jewel | mark |
| 9 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jewel | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Jewel | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Jewel | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Jewel | punct |
| 13 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jewel | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Jewel | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 added | cc |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 tarnish | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tarnish | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 tarnish | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tarnish | advmod |
| 23 | tarnish | tarnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 added | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tarnish | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 tarnish | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tarnish | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Samora | Mugabe | 1980 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mugabe=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Zimbabwe | the Jewel | of Africa | tree rules | |||
| 3 | add speech: express | past | Samora not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not tarnish in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Jewel | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Zimbabwe», 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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