Zimbabwe, sentence 422
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.
Up to one million Ndebele may have left the country over the last five years, mainly for South Africa.
What happens: leave · To what, where: million Ndebele
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 4 million | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 million | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 million | compound |
| 4 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Ndebele | nummod |
| 5 | Ndebele | ndebele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 left | aux |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Africa | punct |
| 17 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 20 Africa | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Africa | case |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Africa | compound |
| 20 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | may · perfect · passive | million Ndebele | year | for South Africa; the country obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme country=Attribute |
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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