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title: The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1483 m above sea level… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1483 m above sea level, and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category. Who acts: city, climate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Harare, sentence 5

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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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The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1483 m above sea level, and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category.

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**Who acts:** city, climate · **What happens:** sit, fall, elevate, acclimate · **To what, where:** plateau, subtropical highland category, 1483 m

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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 (city, climate), 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:5
# text = The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1483 m above sea level, and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	1483	1483	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	subtropical	subtropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	highland	highland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	category	category	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the city |  |  | a plateau |  | at a elevation of 1483 m above sea level | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plateau=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | present | city's climate |  |  |  |  | into the subtropical highland category *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into category=Result |
| 3 | **elevate** |  |  | 1483 m above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **acclimate** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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