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title: In 2006, Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancies in the wor… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2006, Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancies in the world according to UN figure—44 for men and 43 for women, down from 60 in 1990, but recovered to 60 in 2015. Who acts: Zimbabwe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 456

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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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In 2006, Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancies in the world according to UN figure—44 for men and 43 for women, down from 60 in 1990, but recovered to 60 in 2015.

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**Who acts:** Zimbabwe · **What happens:** have, accord, recover · **To what, where:** one, 2006, 2015

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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 (Zimbabwe), 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:456
# text = In 2006, Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancies in the world according to UN figure—44 for men and 43 for women, down from 60 in 1990, but recovered to 60 in 2015.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	expectancies	expectancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Zimbabwe | one of the lowest life expectancies in the world |  | 2006 |  | accord UN figure; for women; from 60 in 1990 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recover** | past | Zimbabwe *not said here* |  |  | 2015 |  | to 60 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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