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title: The following year, Zimbabwean officials voluntarily terminated its… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: The following year, Zimbabwean officials voluntarily terminated its Commonwealth membership; its people remained Commonwealth citizens in British statute. Who acts: Zimbabwean officials, people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 130

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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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The following year, Zimbabwean officials voluntarily terminated its Commonwealth membership; its people remained Commonwealth citizens in British statute.

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**Who acts:** Zimbabwean officials, people · **What happens:** follow, terminate, remain · **To what, where:** Commonwealth membership, Commonwealth citizens, British statute

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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 (Zimbabwean officials, people), 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:130
# text = The following year, Zimbabwean officials voluntarily terminated its Commonwealth membership; its people remained Commonwealth citizens in British statute.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Zimbabwean	Zimbabwean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	terminated	terminate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	statute	statute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **terminate** | past | Zimbabwean officials | tampering's Commonwealth membership |  |  | year | voluntarily *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent membership=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | past | tampering's people | Commonwealth citizens |  | British statute |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme citizen=Attribute |

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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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