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title: Rhodes additionally sought permission to negotiate similar concessio… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhodes additionally sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as "Zambesia". Who acts: Rhodes, similar concessions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 63

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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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Rhodes additionally sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as "Zambesia".

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**Who acts:** Rhodes, similar concessions · **What happens:** seek, negotiate, cover, know · **To what, where:** permission, similar concessions, territory

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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 (Rhodes, similar concessions), 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:63
# text = Rhodes additionally sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as "Zambesia".
1	Rhodes	rhode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	additionally	additionally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	negotiate	negotiate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	concessions	concession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	Tanganyika	Tanganyika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Zambesia	Zambesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Rhodes | permission |  |  |  | additionally *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 2 | **negotiate** | to-infinitive | Rhodes *not said here* | similar concessions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund | similar concessions *not said here* | all territory |  |  |  | between the Limpopo River and Lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme territory=Destination |
| 4 | **know** | participle | Rhodes *not said here* |  |  |  | then | as Zambesia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as zambesia=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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