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title: Intent on effectively repudiating the recently adopted British polic… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Intent on effectively repudiating the recently adopted British policy of "no independence before majority rule", Smith issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965. Who acts: Intent, Smith. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency 
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 83

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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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Intent on effectively repudiating the recently adopted British policy of "no independence before majority rule", Smith issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.

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**Who acts:** Intent, Smith · **What happens:** repudiate, adopt, issue · **To what, where:** the, British policy, Unilateral Declaration, United Kingdom, Intent

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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 (Intent, Smith), 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:83
# text = Intent on effectively repudiating the recently adopted British policy of "no independence before majority rule", Smith issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.
1	Intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	repudiating	repudiate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	obj	_	_
6	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Unilateral	unilateral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	UDI	UDI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	32	flat	_	_
32	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
35	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	1965	1965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repudiate** | gerund | Intent *not said here* | the |  |  |  | effectively *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=Theme |
| 2 | **adopt** | past | Intent *not said here* | British policy of no independence before majority rule |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme |
| 3 | **issue** | past | Smith | a Unilateral Declaration of Independence |  | the United Kingdom |  | on 11  November | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location declaration=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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