Zimbabwe, sentence 63
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.
Rhodes additionally sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as "Zambesia".
Who acts: Rhodes, similar concessions · What happens: seek, negotiate, cover, know · To what, where: permission, similar concessions, territory
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 (Rhodes, similar concessions), 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 | Rhodes | rhode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | additionally | additionally | ADV | _ | 3 sought | advmod |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 negotiate | mark |
| 6 | negotiate | negotiate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permission | acl |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 concessions | amod |
| 8 | concessions | concession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 negotiate | obj |
| 9 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 concessions | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 territory | det |
| 11 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covering | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 River | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 River | det |
| 14 | Limpopo | Limpopo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 River | compound |
| 15 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 territory | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Lake | cc |
| 17 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 River | conj |
| 18 | Tanganyika | Tanganyika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lake | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 known | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 known | advmod |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sought | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 Zambesia | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Zambesia | punct |
| 24 | Zambesia | Zambesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 known | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Zambesia | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Rhodes | permission | additionally property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | |||
| 2 | negotiate | to-infinitive | Rhodes not said here | similar concessions | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | gerund | similar concessions not said here | all territory | between the Limpopo River and Lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme territory=Destination | |||
| 4 | know | participle | Rhodes not said here | then | as Zambesia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as zambesia=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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