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title: In 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzan… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzania, expanding 22.8 per cent; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product that year. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 408

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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 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzania, expanding 22.8 per cent; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product that year.

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**What happens:** be, grow, expand, account · **To what, where:** Tanzania, 22.8 per cent, sector, 2013

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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:408
# text = In 2013, the communications sector was the fastest growing in Tanzania, expanding 22.8 per cent; however, the sector accounted for only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product that year.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	communications	communications	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	appos	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
15	22.8	22.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
23	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	2.4	2.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	28	nummod	_	_
27	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	det	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  | Tanzania |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tanzania=Location |
| 3 | **expand** | gerund |  | 22.8 per cent |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cent=Patient |
| 4 | **account** | participle |  | the sector *not said here* |  |  |  | for 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product  that year | 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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