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title: The EAC has had a customs union since 2005, with a free trade zone b… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: The EAC has had a customs union since 2005, with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations. Who acts: EAC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 272

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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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The EAC has had a customs union since 2005, with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations.

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**Who acts:** EAC · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** customs union

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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 (EAC), 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:272
# text = The EAC has had a customs union since 2005, with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	EAC	EAC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	unified	unified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tariffs	tariff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	agreements	agreement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	non-member	non-member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	multinational	multinational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | the EAC | a customs union |  |  | since 2005 | with a free trade zone between member states and unified tariffs and trade agreements with non-member states and multinational organizations | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=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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