Zimbabwe, sentence 327

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.

The downward spiral of the economy has been attributed mainly to mismanagement and corruption by the government and the eviction of more than 4,000 white farmers in the controversial land confiscations of 2000.

Who acts: government · What happens: attribute, mismanage, evict · To what, where: downward spiral, 4,000 white farmers

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 (government), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spiral	det
2	downward	downward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spiral	amod
3	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attributed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 economy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 economy	det
6	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spiral	nmod
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 attributed	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 attributed	aux:pass
9	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	9 attributed	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 mismanagement	case
12	mismanagement	mismanagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attributed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 corruption	cc
14	corruption	corruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mismanagement	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 government	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 government	det
17	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mismanagement	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eviction	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eviction	det
20	eviction	eviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mismanagement	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 farmers	case
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 4,000	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 farmers	nummod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 farmers	amod
26	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eviction	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 confiscations	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 confiscations	det
29	controversial	controversial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 confiscations	amod
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confiscations	compound
31	confiscations	confiscation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 farmers	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 2000	case
33	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 confiscations	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 attributed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · perfect · passive		the downward spiral of the economy	to mismanagement by the government and corruption and the eviction of 4,000 white farmers in the controversial land confiscations of 2000; mainly property	tree rules
2	mismanage		the government			nom mismanagement «act transitive»: by=agent
3	evict			4,000 white farmers in the controversial land confiscations of 2000		nom eviction «act 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.

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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Zimbabwe, sentence 327