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title: The court confirmed Mnangagwa's victory, making him the newly electe… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: The court confirmed Mnangagwa's victory, making him the newly elected president after Mugabe. Who acts: court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 161

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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 court confirmed Mnangagwa's victory, making him the newly elected president after Mugabe.

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** confirm, make, elect · **To what, where:** victory, elected president, Mnangagwa

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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 (court), 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:161
# text = The court confirmed Mnangagwa's victory, making him the newly elected president after Mugabe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mnangagwa	Mnangagwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mugabe	Mugabe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | past | the court | Mnangagwa's victory |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot victory=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the court *not said here* | the elected president | Mnangagwa |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary president=Product |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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