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title: In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 232

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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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In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government.

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**What happens:** abolish, replace · **To what, where:** local government, 1972

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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: 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:232
# text = In 1972, local government on the mainland was abolished and replaced with direct rule from the central government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1972	1972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | local government on the mainland |  | 1972 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **replace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with direct rule from the central government | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with rule=Co-Theme |

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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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