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title: In 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the two Rhodesias with Nyasaland (Malawi) in the ill-fated Central African Federation, which Southern Rhodesia essentially dominated. Who acts: Britain, Southern. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 79

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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 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the two Rhodesias with Nyasaland (Malawi) in the ill-fated Central African Federation, which Southern Rhodesia essentially dominated.

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**Who acts:** Britain, Southern · **What happens:** consolidate, dominate · **To what, where:** two Rhodesias, 1953, fated Central African Federation

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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 (Britain, Southern), 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:79
# text = In 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the two Rhodesias with Nyasaland (Malawi) in the ill-fated Central African Federation, which Southern Rhodesia essentially dominated.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	consolidated	consolidate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Rhodesias	rhodesia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nyasaland	Nyasaland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Malawi	Malawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fated	fated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	34	nsubj	_	_
32	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consolidate** | past | Britain | the two Rhodesias |  | 1953 |  | with Nyasaland; in the fated Central African Federation | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rhodesia=Patient with nyasaland=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **dominate** | past | Southern | the fated Central African Federation |  |  |  | essentially *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Co-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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