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title: In the early 21st century, Harare was adversely affected by the poli… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early 21st century, Harare was adversely affected by the political and economic crises that plagued Zimbabwe, particularly following the contested 2002 presidential election and 2005 parliamentary elections. Who acts: political crises. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency tr
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# Harare, sentence 47

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From Wikipedia, [«Harare»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harare), 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 the early 21st century, Harare was adversely affected by the political and economic crises that plagued Zimbabwe, particularly following the contested 2002 presidential election and 2005 parliamentary elections.

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**Who acts:** political crises · **What happens:** affect, plague, follow, contest · **To what, where:** Harare, Zimbabwe

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Harare». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (political crises), 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:Harare:47
# text = In the early 21st century, Harare was adversely affected by the political and economic crises that plagued Zimbabwe, particularly following the contested 2002 presidential election and 2005 parliamentary elections.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Harare	Harare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	adversely	adversely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	crises	crisis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	plagued	plague	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	contested	contest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
25	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past · passive | the political crises | Harare |  |  | century | follow the contested 2002 presidential election and 2005 parliamentary elections; adversely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **plague** | past | the political crises | Zimbabwe |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus zimbabwe=Experiencer |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | particularly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **contest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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, «Harare», 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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