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title: At the ward level, there is a Ward Development Committee, comprising… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: At the ward level, there is a Ward Development Committee, comprising the elected ward councillor, the kraalheads (traditional leaders subordinate to chiefs) and representatives of Village Development Committees. Who acts: Ward Development Committee, traditional leaders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zi
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 289

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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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At the ward level, there is a Ward Development Committee, comprising the elected ward councillor, the kraalheads (traditional leaders subordinate to chiefs) and representatives of Village Development Committees.

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**Who acts:** Ward Development Committee, traditional leaders · **What happens:** be, comprise, elect, subordinate · **To what, where:** ward level, elected ward councillor, kraalheads

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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 (Ward Development Committee, traditional leaders), 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:289
# text = At the ward level, there is a Ward Development Committee, comprising the elected ward councillor, the kraalheads (traditional leaders subordinate to chiefs) and representatives of Village Development Committees.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Ward	Ward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Committee	Committee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	councillor	councillor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kraalheads	kraalhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	subordinate	subordinate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Village	Village	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Committees	committee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a Ward Development Committee |  |  | the ward level; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at level=Location |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | a Ward Development Committee *not said here* | the elected ward councillor and representatives of Development Committees |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme councillor=Pivot |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **subordinate** | present | traditional leaders | the kraalheads *not said here* |  |  |  | to chiefs | tree rules |

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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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