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title: Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually perform kwaya. Who acts: Male MCs, female MCs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 564

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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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Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually perform kwaya.

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**Who acts:** Male MCs, female MCs · **What happens:** perform, pace · **To what, where:** fast paced rap, kwaya

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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 (Male MCs, female MCs), 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:564
# text = Male MCs usually perform in fast-paced rap, while female MCs usually perform kwaya.
1	Male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	MCs	mc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	paced	pace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	rap	rap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	MCs	mc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	kwaya	kwaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | present | Male MCs |  |  | fast paced rap |  | usually *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **perform** | present | female MCs | kwaya |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kwaya=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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