Zimbabwe, sentence 98
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.
Following the fifth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1 to 7 August in 1979, the British government invited Muzorewa, Mugabe, and Nkomo to participate in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House.
Who acts: British government · What happens: follow, hold, invite, participate · To what, where: Government Meeting, Lusaka, Muzorewa
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 (British government), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Meeting | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Heads | det |
| 3 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Heads | amod |
| 4 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Heads | compound |
| 5 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Meeting | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Meeting | case |
| 7 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Meeting | compound |
| 8 | Meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 invited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Meeting | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Lusaka | case |
| 12 | Lusaka | Lusaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Zambia | punct |
| 14 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lusaka | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 1 | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 1 | case |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Meeting | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 7 | case |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 1 | nmod |
| 20 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1979 | case |
| 22 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 1 | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Meeting | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 invited | nsubj |
| 27 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | Muzorewa | Muzorewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 invited | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mugabe | punct |
| 30 | Mugabe | Mugabe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Muzorewa | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Nkomo | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Nkomo | cc |
| 33 | Nkomo | Nkomo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Muzorewa | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 participate | mark |
| 35 | participate | participate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 invited | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 conference | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 conference | det |
| 38 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 conference | amod |
| 39 | conference | conference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 participate | obl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 House | case |
| 41 | Lancaster | Lancaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 House | compound |
| 42 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 conference | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hold | participle | Government Meeting the fifth Commonwealth Heads not said here | Lusaka and Zambia | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lusaka=Location | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | the British government | Muzorewa and Nkomo | follow Government Meeting the fifth Commonwealth Heads | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzorewa=Recipient | |||
| 4 | participate | to-infinitive | the British government not said here | in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in conference=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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