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title: It retained the name Salisbury until 1982 when it was renamed Harare… — Harare · tree and pragmatics
description: It retained the name Salisbury until 1982 when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom. Who acts: Salisbury. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Harare» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Harare, sentence 9

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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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It retained the name Salisbury until 1982 when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom.

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**Who acts:** Salisbury · **What happens:** retain, rename · **To what, where:** name, second anniversary

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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:9
# text = It retained the name Salisbury until 1982 when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Salisbury	Salisbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	renamed	rename	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	Harare	harare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	24	flat	_	_
24	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | past | Salisbury | the name |  |  | until 1982 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rename** | past · passive |  | name |  | the second anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom |  | Harare *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme harare=Result |

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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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