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title: Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17 million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94 million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88 million tonnes), beans (1.64 million tonnes), bananas (1.31 million tonnes), rice (1.31 million tonnes), and millet (1.04 million tonnes). Who acts:
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# Tanzania, sentence 355

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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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Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17 million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94 million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88 million tonnes), beans (1.64 million tonnes), bananas (1.31 million tonnes), rice (1.31 million tonnes), and millet (1.04 million tonnes).

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**Who acts:** Maize · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** largest food crop, Tanzania mainland

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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 (Maize), 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:355
# text = Maize was the largest food crop on the Tanzania mainland in 2013 (5.17 million tonnes), followed by cassava (1.94 million tonnes), sweet potatoes (1.88 million tonnes), beans (1.64 million tonnes), bananas (1.31 million tonnes), rice (1.31 million tonnes), and millet (1.04 million tonnes).
1	Maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	5.17	5.17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	cassava	cassava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1.94	1.94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	1.88	1.88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	compound	_	_
32	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	1.64	1.64	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	compound	_	_
39	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	1.31	1.31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	compound	_	_
46	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
51	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	1.31	1.31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	53	compound	_	_
53	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
59	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	1.04	1.04	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	61	compound	_	_
61	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	nummod	_	_
62	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Maize | the largest food crop and millet |  | the Tanzania mainland in 2013 |  | million tonnes *appos*; millet *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by cassava and beans and bananas and rice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by cassava=Location |

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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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