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title: Its location in a rural environment was seen as the ujamaa heartland… — Dodoma · tree and pragmatics
description: Its location in a rural environment was seen as the ujamaa heartland and therefore appropriate for a ujamaa capital that could see and learn from neighbouring villages and maintain a close relationship to the land. Who acts: ujamaa capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dodoma» with its dependency tree
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# Dodoma, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Dodoma»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodoma), 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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Its location in a rural environment was seen as the ujamaa heartland and therefore appropriate for a ujamaa capital that could see and learn from neighbouring villages and maintain a close relationship to the land.

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**Who acts:** ujamaa capital · **What happens:** see, learn, neighbour, maintain · **To what, where:** location, neighbouring villages, close relationship

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dodoma». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ujamaa capital), 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:Dodoma:22
# text = Its location in a rural environment was seen as the ujamaa heartland and therefore appropriate for a ujamaa capital that could see and learn from neighbouring villages and maintain a close relationship to the land.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ujamaa	ujamaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	heartland	heartland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ujamaa	ujamaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | Region's location in a rural environment |  |  |  | as the ujamaa heartland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as heartland=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | could | a ujamaa capital |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | a ujamaa capital *not said here* |  |  | neighbouring villages |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from village=Source |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **maintain** | present | a ujamaa capital *not said here* | a close relationship |  |  |  | to the land | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relationship=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, «Dodoma», 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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