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title: Charles Mungoshi is renowned in Zimbabwe for writing traditional sto… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 526

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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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Charles Mungoshi is renowned in Zimbabwe for writing traditional stories in English and in Shona, and his poems and books have sold well with both the black and white communities.

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**What happens:** renown, sell · **To what, where:** Charles, Zimbabwe, poems

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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: 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:526
# text = Charles Mungoshi is renowned in Zimbabwe for writing traditional stories in English and in Shona, and his poems and books have sold well with both the black and white communities.
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Mungoshi	Mungoshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	renowned	renown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Shona	Shona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc:preconj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **renown** | present · passive |  | Charles |  | Zimbabwe |  | for writing traditional stories in English and Shona | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | present · perfect · passive |  | Zimbabwe's poems and books |  |  |  | with the black communities; well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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