Zimbabwe, sentence 94
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.
As a result of the Internal Settlement, elections were held in April 1979, concluding with the United African National Council (UANC) carrying a majority of parliamentary seats.
What happens: hold, conclude, carry, result · To what, where: elections, majority, Internal Settlement
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Settlement | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Settlement | det |
| 6 | Internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Settlement | amod |
| 7 | Settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 result | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 9 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 held | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux:pass |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 April | case |
| 13 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 14 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concluding | punct |
| 16 | concluding | conclude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 held | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Council | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Council | det |
| 19 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Council | amod |
| 20 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Council | compound |
| 21 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Council | amod |
| 22 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 concluding | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 UANC | punct |
| 24 | UANC | UANC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Council | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 UANC | punct |
| 26 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 concluding | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 majority | det |
| 28 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carrying | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 seats | case |
| 30 | parliamentary | parliamentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seats | amod |
| 31 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 majority | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | elections | april | as a result of the Internal Settlement | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | conclude | gerund | with the United African National Council | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with council=Subeventuality | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a majority of parliamentary seats | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Theme | |||||
| 4 | result | the Internal Settlement | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
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