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title: The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and was named Fort Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Who acts: Pioneer Column. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Harare, sentence 6

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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 was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and was named Fort Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.

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**Who acts:** Pioneer Column · **What happens:** found, name · **To what, where:** city, 1890

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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 (Pioneer Column), 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:6
# text = The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and was named Fort Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Pioneer	Pioneer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Column	Column	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
26	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
27	Salisbury	Salisbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
30	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
31	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	32	compound	_	_
32	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Salisbury	Salisbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive | the Pioneer Column | the city |  | 1890 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | past · passive | the Pioneer Column *not said here* |  |  |  | after the British Lord Salisbury | Fort *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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