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title: On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure on the former Rhodesia. Who acts: States Senate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 97

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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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On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure on the former Rhodesia.

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**Who acts:** States Senate · **What happens:** vote, lift · **To what, where:** economic pressure, former Rhodesia

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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 (States Senate), 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:97
# text = On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure on the former Rhodesia.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | the States Senate |  |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the States Senate *not said here* | economic pressure |  | the former Rhodesia |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on rhodesia=Destination |

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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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