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title: In July 2024, Dodoma officially surpassed Arusha to become the third… — Dodoma · tree and pragmatics
description: In July 2024, Dodoma officially surpassed Arusha to become the third largest city in Tanzania on both infrastructure and population measures. Who acts: Dodoma. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dodoma» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dodoma, sentence 4

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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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In July 2024, Dodoma officially surpassed Arusha to become the third largest city in Tanzania on both infrastructure and population measures.

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**Who acts:** Dodoma · **What happens:** surpass, become · **To what, where:** Arusha, third largest city

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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 (Dodoma), 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:4
# text = In July 2024, Dodoma officially surpassed Arusha to become the third largest city in Tanzania on both infrastructure and population measures.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Dodoma	Dodoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	surpassed	surpass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Arusha	Arusha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | past | Dodoma | Arusha |  |  | july | officially *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arusha=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | Dodoma *not said here* | the third largest city in Tanzania on both infrastructure and population measures |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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