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title: A local favourite is rice cooked with peanut butter, which is taken… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: A local favourite is rice cooked with peanut butter, which is taken with thick gravy, mixed vegetables and meat. Who acts: local favourite. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 558

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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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A local favourite is rice cooked with peanut butter, which is taken with thick gravy, mixed vegetables and meat.

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**Who acts:** local favourite · **What happens:** be, cook, take, mix · **To what, where:** rice, peanut butter

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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 (local favourite), 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:558
# text = A local favourite is rice cooked with peanut butter, which is taken with thick gravy, mixed vegetables and meat.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	peanut	peanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gravy	gravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a local favourite | rice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook** | participle |  | rice *not said here* |  |  |  | with peanut butter | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with butter=Instrument |
| 3 | **take** | present · passive |  | peanut butter |  |  |  | with thick gravy and mixed vegetables and meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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