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title: Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania wh… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya. Who acts: ethnic divisions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 116

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From Wikipedia, [«Tanzania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania), 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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Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya.

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**Who acts:** ethnic divisions · **What happens:** remain, compare · **To what, where:** Tanzania, immediate neighbour

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ethnic divisions), 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:Tanzania:116
# text = Despite this obstacle, ethnic divisions remained rare in Tanzania when compared to the rest of the continent, notably its immediate neighbour, Kenya.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle | ethnic divisions |  |  | Tanzania |  | despite this obstacle; rare *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tanzania=Location |
| 2 | **compare** | participle | ethnic divisions *not said here* | continent's immediate neighbour |  |  |  | to the rest of the continent | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Tanzania», 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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