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title: Most of the country sits on the Zimbabwean Plateau, which generally… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the country sits on the Zimbabwean Plateau, which generally has an elevation of over 1000 m. The country's extreme east is mountainous, this area being known as the Eastern Highlands, with Mount Nyangani as the highest point at 2592 m. Who acts: Most, extreme east. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 177

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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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Most of the country sits on the Zimbabwean Plateau, which generally has an elevation of over 1000 m. The country's extreme east is mountainous, this area being known as the Eastern Highlands, with Mount Nyangani as the highest point at 2592 m.

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**Who acts:** Most, extreme east · **What happens:** sit, have, be, know, elevate · **To what, where:** Zimbabwean Plateau, 1000 m., area

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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 (Most, extreme east), 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:177
# text = Most of the country sits on the Zimbabwean Plateau, which generally has an elevation of over 1000 m. The country's extreme east is mountainous, this area being known as the Eastern Highlands, with Mount Nyangani as the highest point at 2592 m.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Zimbabwean	Zimbabwean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	m.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	Nyangani	Nyangani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	2592	2592	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	m.	m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Most of the country |  |  | the Zimbabwean Plateau |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plateau=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | Most of the country *not said here* | the Zimbabwean Plateau |  |  |  | a elevation of 1000 m. *obj*; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the country's extreme east | 1000 m. *not said here* |  |  |  | mountainous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | gerund · passive |  | this area |  |  |  | as the Eastern Highlands; with Mount; as the highest point at 2592 m. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as highland=Attribute |
| 5 | **elevate** |  |  | 1000 m. |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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