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title: Balancing rocks are geological formations all over Zimbabwe. — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Balancing rocks are geological formations all over Zimbabwe. Who acts: Balancing rocks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 588

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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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Balancing rocks are geological formations all over Zimbabwe.

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**Who acts:** Balancing rocks · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** geological formations, Zimbabwe

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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 (Balancing rocks), 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:588
# text = Balancing rocks are geological formations all over Zimbabwe.
1	Balancing	balancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	geological	geological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	formations	formation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 | Balancing rocks | geological formations |  | Zimbabwe |  |  | 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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