--- title: Following the fifth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held i… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics description: Following the fifth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1 to 7 August in 1979, the British government invited Muzorewa, Mugabe, and Nkomo to participate in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House. Who acts: British government. 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Following the fifth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1 to 7 August in 1979, the British government invited Muzorewa, Mugabe, and Nkomo to participate in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House. **Who acts:** British government · **What happens:** follow, hold, invite, participate · **To what, where:** Government Meeting, Lusaka, Muzorewa 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 (British government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:98 # text = Following the fifth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1 to 7 August in 1979, the British government invited Muzorewa, Mugabe, and Nkomo to participate in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House. 1 Following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Lusaka Lusaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Zambia Zambia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1979 1979 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 Muzorewa Muzorewa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Mugabe Mugabe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Nkomo Nkomo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 participate participate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 conference conference NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 Lancaster Lancaster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | participle | | Government Meeting the fifth Commonwealth Heads *not said here* | | Lusaka and Zambia | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lusaka=Location | | 3 | **invite** | past | the British government | | Muzorewa and Nkomo | | | follow Government Meeting the fifth Commonwealth Heads | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzorewa=Recipient | | 4 | **participate** | to-infinitive | the British government *not said here* | | | | | in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in conference=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/99/) - ↑ back to [Zimbabwe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zimbabwe/)