Zimbabwe, sentence 83
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.
Intent on effectively repudiating the recently adopted British policy of "no independence before majority rule", Smith issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.
Who acts: Intent, Smith · What happens: repudiate, adopt, issue · To what, where: the, British policy, Unilateral Declaration, United Kingdom, Intent
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 (Intent, Smith), 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 | Intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 repudiating | mark |
| 3 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 4 repudiating | advmod |
| 4 | repudiating | repudiate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Intent | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 repudiating | obj |
| 6 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 7 adopted | advmod |
| 7 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 the | advcl |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 policy | amod |
| 9 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adopted | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 independence | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 independence | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 independence | det |
| 13 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 policy | nmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 rule | case |
| 15 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rule | compound |
| 16 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 independence | nmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 rule | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 issued | punct |
| 19 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 issued | nsubj |
| 20 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 policy | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Declaration | det |
| 22 | Unilateral | unilateral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Declaration | amod |
| 23 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 issued | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Independence | case |
| 25 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Declaration | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 UDI | punct |
| 27 | UDI | UDI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Declaration | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 UDI | punct |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 Kingdom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Kingdom | det |
| 31 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 32 Kingdom | flat |
| 32 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 issued | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 11 | case |
| 34 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 issued | obl |
| 35 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 11 | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Intent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repudiate | gerund | Intent not said here | the | effectively property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=Theme | |||
| 2 | adopt | past | Intent not said here | British policy of no independence before majority rule | recently property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme | |||
| 3 | issue | past | Smith | a Unilateral Declaration of Independence | the United Kingdom | on 11 November | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location declaration=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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