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title: During this period, NGOs took over from government as a primary prov… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: During this period, NGOs took over from government as a primary provider of food during this period of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Who acts: NGOs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 144

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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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During this period, NGOs took over from government as a primary provider of food during this period of food insecurity in Zimbabwe.

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**Who acts:** NGOs · **What happens:** take over · **To what, where:** government

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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 (NGOs), 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:144
# text = During this period, NGOs took over from government as a primary provider of food during this period of food insecurity in Zimbabwe.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	NGOs	NGOs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	provider	provider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	insecurity	insecurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | past | NGOs |  |  | government | during this period; during this period of food insecurity in Zimbabwe | as a primary provider of food | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from government=Source |

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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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