Zimbabwe, sentence 289
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.
At the ward level, there is a Ward Development Committee, comprising the elected ward councillor, the kraalheads (traditional leaders subordinate to chiefs) and representatives of Village Development Committees.
Who acts: Ward Development Committee, traditional leaders · What happens: be, comprise, elect, subordinate · To what, where: ward level, elected ward councillor, kraalheads
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 (Ward Development Committee, traditional leaders), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 level | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 level | det |
| 3 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 level | compound |
| 4 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 level | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Committee | det |
| 9 | Ward | Ward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Committee | compound |
| 10 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Committee | compound |
| 11 | Committee | Committee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comprising | punct |
| 13 | comprising | comprise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 is | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 councillor | det |
| 15 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 councillor | amod |
| 16 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 councillor | compound |
| 17 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comprising | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kraalheads | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kraalheads | det |
| 20 | kraalheads | kraalhead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 councillor | appos |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 subordinate | punct |
| 22 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leaders | amod |
| 23 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 subordinate | nsubj |
| 24 | subordinate | subordinate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kraalheads | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 chiefs | case |
| 26 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 subordinate | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 kraalheads | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 representatives | cc |
| 29 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 councillor | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Committees | case |
| 31 | Village | Village | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Development | compound |
| 32 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Committees | compound |
| 33 | Committees | committee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 representatives | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a Ward Development Committee | the ward level; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at level=Location | ||||
| 2 | comprise | gerund | a Ward Development Committee not said here | the elected ward councillor and representatives of Development Committees | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme councillor=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | subordinate | present | traditional leaders | the kraalheads not said here | to chiefs | 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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