--- title: Dodoma was envisaged as a nation-building project to cement a newly… — Dodoma · tree and pragmatics description: Dodoma was envisaged as a nation-building project to cement a newly post-colonial independence identity and direction in Tanzania, and is similar to projects in Nigeria (Abuja), Côte d'Ivoire (Yamoussoukro), Botswana (Gaborone), Malawi (Lilongwe) and Mauritania (Nouakchott). 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Dodoma was envisaged as a nation-building project to cement a newly post-colonial independence identity and direction in Tanzania, and is similar to projects in Nigeria (Abuja), Côte d'Ivoire (Yamoussoukro), Botswana (Gaborone), Malawi (Lilongwe) and Mauritania (Nouakchott). **What happens:** envisage, cement, be · **To what, where:** Dodoma, post-colonial independence identity 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: 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Dodoma:41 # text = Dodoma was envisaged as a nation-building project to cement a newly post-colonial independence identity and direction in Tanzania, and is similar to projects in Nigeria (Abuja), Côte d'Ivoire (Yamoussoukro), Botswana (Gaborone), Malawi (Lilongwe) and Mauritania (Nouakchott). 1 Dodoma Dodoma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 envisaged envisage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 cement cement VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 newly newly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 post-colonial post-colonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Tanzania Tanzania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 projects project NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Abuja Abuja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Côte Côte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 d'Ivoire d'Ivoire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Botswana Botswana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Gaborone Gaborone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Malawi Malawi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Lilongwe Lilongwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 Mauritania Mauritania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 50 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Nouakchott Nouakchott PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **envisage** | past · passive | | Dodoma | | | | as a building project | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as project=Attribute | | 2 | **cement** | to-infinitive | | a post-colonial independence identity and direction in Tanzania | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | to projects in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire and Botswana and Malawi and Mauritania; similar *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dodoma/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dodoma/42/) - ↑ back to [Dodoma](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dodoma/)