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title: Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this t… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this threat, the government of South Africa continued to destabilise Mozambique. Who acts: threat, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 167

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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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Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this threat, the government of South Africa continued to destabilise Mozambique.

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**Who acts:** threat, government · **What happens:** remove, continue, destabilise, change · **To what, where:** Mozambique, Zimbabwe

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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 (threat, government), 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:167
# text = Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this threat, the government of South Africa continued to destabilise Mozambique.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
10	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	destabilise	destabilise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past |  |  |  |  |  | although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **continue** | past | this threat |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **destabilise** | to-infinitive | this threat *not said here* | Mozambique |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** |  | government |  |  | Zimbabwe |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent in=place |

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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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