Zimbabwe, sentence 177
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.
Most of the country sits on the Zimbabwean Plateau, which generally has an elevation of over 1000 m. The country's extreme east is mountainous, this area being known as the Eastern Highlands, with Mount Nyangani as the highest point at 2592 m.
Who acts: Most, extreme east · What happens: sit, have, be, know, elevate · To what, where: Zimbabwean Plateau, 1000 m., area
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 (Most, extreme east), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Plateau | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Plateau | det |
| 8 | Zimbabwean | Zimbabwean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Plateau | compound |
| 9 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 has | obj |
| 12 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 13 has | advmod |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Plateau | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 elevation | det |
| 15 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 m. | case |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 1000 | advmod |
| 18 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 m. | nummod |
| 19 | m. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 elevation | nmod |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 east | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 country | case |
| 23 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 east | amod |
| 24 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mountainous | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mountainous | cop |
| 26 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 m. | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 known | punct |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 area | det |
| 29 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 known | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 known | aux:pass |
| 31 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 elevation | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 Highlands | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Highlands | det |
| 34 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Highlands | amod |
| 35 | Highlands | Highland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 known | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Mount | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 Mount | case |
| 38 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 known | obl |
| 39 | Nyangani | Nyangani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Mount | flat |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 point | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 point | det |
| 42 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 point | amod |
| 43 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 known | obl |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 m. | case |
| 45 | 2592 | 2592 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 m. | nummod |
| 46 | m. | m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 point | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Most of the country | the Zimbabwean Plateau | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plateau=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Most of the country not said here | the Zimbabwean Plateau | a elevation of 1000 m. obj; generally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the country's extreme east | 1000 m. not said here | mountainous property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | gerund · passive | this area | as the Eastern Highlands; with Mount; as the highest point at 2592 m. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as highland=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | elevate | 1000 m. | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=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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