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title: Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and d… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's government to undertake overt and covert actions to oppose the country. Who acts: country access, government, Mozambique. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency 
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# Mozambique, sentence 166

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From Wikipedia, [«Mozambique»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique), 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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Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's government to undertake overt and covert actions to oppose the country.

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**Who acts:** country access, government, Mozambique · **What happens:** enforce, deny, lead, undertake, oppose, decide · **To what, where:** UN sanctions, government, overt actions, country, decision

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country access, government, Mozambique), 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:Mozambique:166
# text = Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's government to undertake overt and covert actions to oppose the country.
1	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	enforce	enforce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
25	overt	overt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	covert	covert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	oppose	oppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enforce** | to-infinitive |  | UN sanctions |  |  |  | against Rhodesia | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme |
| 2 | **deny** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | past | country access to the sea | Ian's government |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent government=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | Ian's government *not said here* | overt actions |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality |
| 5 | **oppose** | to-infinitive | Ian's government *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 7 | **decide** |  | Mozambique |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: 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, «Mozambique», 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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