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title: From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than tripled, from TSh per kilogramme to per kilogramme. Who acts: price. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 327

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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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From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than tripled, from TSh per kilogramme to per kilogramme.

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**Who acts:** price · **What happens:** buy, wholesale, triple, per · **To what, where:** more, 2015, kilogramme

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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 (price), 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:327
# text = From 2015 to 2017 the price of maize when bought wholesale more than tripled, from TSh per kilogramme to per kilogramme.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	wholesale	wholesale	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tripled	triple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	TSh	TSh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	per	per	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	kilogramme	kilogramme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	per	per	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	kilogramme	kilogramme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wholesale** | present | the price of maize | more |  | 2015 to 2017 |  | from TSh per kilogramme | tree rules |
| 3 | **triple** | participle | the price of maize *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **per** | infinitive | the price of maize *not said here* | kilogramme |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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