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title: Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later R… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation. Who acts: Salisbury. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Harare, sentence 8

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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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Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation.

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**Who acts:** Salisbury · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** seat

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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 (Salisbury), 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:8
# text = Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation.
1	Salisbury	salisbury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Rhodesian	Rhodesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	Rhodesian	Rhodesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	list	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Salisbury | the seat |  |  |  | of the Southern Rhodesian and Rhodesian; the capital of the Central African Federation *parataxis*; thereafter *property* | 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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