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title: Traditionally, women on Ndzwani wear red and white patterned garment… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: Traditionally, women on Ndzwani wear red and white patterned garments called shiromani, while on Ngazidja and Mwali colourful shawls called leso are worn. Who acts: women, red patterned garments, Ngazidja colourful shawls. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 275

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Traditionally, women on Ndzwani wear red and white patterned garments called shiromani, while on Ngazidja and Mwali colourful shawls called leso are worn.

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**Who acts:** women, red patterned garments, Ngazidja colourful shawls · **What happens:** wear, pattern, call · **To what, where:** red patterned garments, shiromani, leso, Ngazidja colourful shawls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, red patterned garments, Ngazidja colourful shawls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Comoros:275
# text = Traditionally, women on Ndzwani wear red and white patterned garments called shiromani, while on Ngazidja and Mwali colourful shawls called leso are worn.
1	Traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ndzwani	Ndzwani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	patterned	pattern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	shiromani	shiromani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ngazidja	Ngazidja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Mwali	Mwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	colourful	colourful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shawls	shawl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	leso	leso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | women on Ndzwani | red patterned garments |  |  |  | traditionally *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source |
| 2 | **pattern** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle | red patterned garments *not said here* | shiromani |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | participle | Ngazidja colourful shawls *not said here* | leso |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wear** | present · passive |  | Ngazidja colourful shawls |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Comoros», 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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