Zimbabwe, sentence 558
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.
A local favourite is rice cooked with peanut butter, which is taken with thick gravy, mixed vegetables and meat.
Who acts: local favourite · What happens: be, cook, take, mix · To what, where: rice, peanut butter
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 (local favourite), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 favourite | det |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 favourite | amod |
| 3 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rice | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rice | cop |
| 5 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rice | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 butter | case |
| 8 | peanut | peanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 butter | compound |
| 9 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 butter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gravy | case |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gravy | amod |
| 16 | gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vegetables | punct |
| 18 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 vegetables | amod |
| 19 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gravy | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meat | cc |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gravy | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a local favourite | rice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | rice not said here | with peanut butter | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with butter=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | take | present · passive | peanut butter | with thick gravy and mixed vegetables and meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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