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title: The government declared potato a national strategic food security cr… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: The government declared potato a national strategic food security crop in 2012. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 366

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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 government declared potato a national strategic food security crop in 2012.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** potato, 2012

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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 (government), 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:366
# text = The government declared potato a national strategic food security crop in 2012.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the government | potato |  | 2012 |  | a national strategic security crop *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent potato=Theme crop=Attribute |

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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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