Zimbabwe, sentence 477
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 wealthier portion of the population usually send their children to independent schools as opposed to the government-run schools which are attended by the majority as these are subsidised by the government.
Who acts: wealthier portion, majority, government · What happens: send, oppose, attend, subsidis · To what, where: children, independent schools, run schools
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 (wealthier portion, majority, 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 portion | det |
| 2 | wealthier | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 portion | amod |
| 3 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 population | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 population | det |
| 6 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 portion | nmod |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 send | advmod |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 send | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 schools | case |
| 12 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 schools | amod |
| 13 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 send | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 schools | case |
| 15 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 schools | det |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 run | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 government | punct |
| 20 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 schools | compound |
| 21 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 subsidised | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 attended | aux:pass |
| 24 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 schools | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 majority | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 majority | det |
| 27 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attended | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 these | case |
| 29 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 attended | obl |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 subsidised | aux:pass |
| 31 | subsidised | subsidis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 schools | acl:relcl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 government | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 government | det |
| 34 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 subsidised | obl:agent |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the wealthier portion of the population | investments's children | independent schools | usually property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination | ||
| 2 | oppose | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | attend | present · passive | the majority | the run schools | as these | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | |||
| 4 | subsidis | present · passive | the government | the run schools | 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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