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title: On 11 December 1979, the Rhodesian House of Assembly voted 90 to nil… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: On 11 December 1979, the Rhodesian House of Assembly voted 90 to nil to revert to British colonial status. Who acts: Rhodesian House. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Zimbabwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe), 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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On 11 December 1979, the Rhodesian House of Assembly voted 90 to nil to revert to British colonial status.

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**Who acts:** Rhodesian House · **What happens:** vote, nil, revert · **To what, where:** 90, 11

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhodesian House), 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:Zimbabwe:103
# text = On 11 December 1979, the Rhodesian House of Assembly voted 90 to nil to revert to British colonial status.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Rhodesian	Rhodesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	nil	nil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	revert	revert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | the Rhodesian House of Assembly | 90 |  | 11 |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 90=Theme |
| 2 | **nil** | to-infinitive | the Rhodesian House of Assembly *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **revert** | to-infinitive | the Rhodesian House of Assembly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to British colonial status *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to status=Result |

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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, «Zimbabwe», 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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