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title: Dodoma is populated by different ethnic groups because it is a gover… — Dodoma · tree and pragmatics
description: Dodoma is populated by different ethnic groups because it is a government administrative centre, although the indigenous ethnic groups are the Gogo, Rangi, and Sandawe. Who acts: different ethnic groups, Church, indigenous ethnic groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dodoma» with its dependency tree an
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# Dodoma, sentence 45

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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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Dodoma is populated by different ethnic groups because it is a government administrative centre, although the indigenous ethnic groups are the Gogo, Rangi, and Sandawe.

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**Who acts:** different ethnic groups, Church, indigenous ethnic groups · **What happens:** populate, be · **To what, where:** Dodoma, government administrative centre, Gogo

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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 (different ethnic groups, Church, indigenous ethnic groups), 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:45
# text = Dodoma is populated by different ethnic groups because it is a government administrative centre, although the indigenous ethnic groups are the Gogo, Rangi, and Sandawe.
1	Dodoma	Dodoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gogo	Gogo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Rangi	Rangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Sandawe	Sandawe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **populate** | present · passive | different ethnic groups | Dodoma |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Church | a government administrative centre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the indigenous ethnic groups | the Gogo and Sandawe |  |  |  | Sandawe *conj* | tree rules |

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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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