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title: The Mugabe government has directly or indirectly caused the deaths o… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mugabe government has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of at least three million Zimbabweans in 37 years. Who acts: Mugabe government, million Zimbabweans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 170

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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 Mugabe government has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of at least three million Zimbabweans in 37 years.

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**Who acts:** Mugabe government, million Zimbabweans · **What happens:** have, cause, die · **To what, where:** deaths

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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 (Mugabe government, million Zimbabweans), 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:170
# text = The Mugabe government has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of at least three million Zimbabweans in 37 years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mugabe	Mugabe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	indirectly	indirectly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nmod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Zimbabweans	zimbabwean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Mugabe government |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | past | the Mugabe government *not said here* | the deaths of million Zimbabweans |  |  | year | indirectly *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 3 | **die** |  | million Zimbabweans |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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