Zimbabwe, sentence 526
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.
Charles Mungoshi is renowned in Zimbabwe for writing traditional stories in English and in Shona, and his poems and books have sold well with both the black and white communities.
What happens: renown, sell · To what, where: Charles, Zimbabwe, poems
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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 renowned | nsubj |
| 2 | Mungoshi | Mungoshi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 renowned | aux:pass |
| 4 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Zimbabwe | case |
| 6 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 renowned | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | compound |
| 9 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stories | amod |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 renowned | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 English | case |
| 12 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Shona | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Shona | case |
| 15 | Shona | Shona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 English | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sold | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sold | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 poems | nmod:poss |
| 19 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 books | cc |
| 21 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 poems | conj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sold | aux |
| 23 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 renowned | conj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 sold | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 communities | case |
| 26 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 31 communities | cc:preconj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 communities | det |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 communities | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 white | cc |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 black | conj |
| 31 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sold | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 renowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renown | present · passive | Charles | Zimbabwe | for writing traditional stories in English and Shona | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sell | present · perfect · passive | Zimbabwe's poems and books | with the black communities; well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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