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title: In December 1966, the organisation complied, imposing the first mand… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 1966, the organisation complied, imposing the first mandatory trade embargo on an autonomous state. Who acts: organisation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 87

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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 December 1966, the organisation complied, imposing the first mandatory trade embargo on an autonomous state.

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**Who acts:** organisation · **What happens:** comply, impose · **To what, where:** first trade embargo, autonomous state

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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 (organisation), 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:87
# text = In December 1966, the organisation complied, imposing the first mandatory trade embargo on an autonomous state.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	organisation	organisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	complied	comply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	imposing	impose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
12	mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	embargo	embargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comply** | past | the organisation |  |  |  | december |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **impose** | gerund | the organisation *not said here* | the first trade embargo |  | a autonomous state |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embargo=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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