Lilongwe, sentence 11
From Wikipedia, «Lilongwe», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Lilongwe became the capital of Malawi in 1975, replacing the previous capital, Zomba.
Who acts: Lilongwe · What happens: become, replace · To what, where: capital, 1975, previous capital
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lilongwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lilongwe), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lilongwe | lilongwe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Malawi | case |
| 6 | Malawi | Malawi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1975 | case |
| 8 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 became | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replacing | punct |
| 10 | replacing | replace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 became | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 12 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 capital | amod |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replacing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Zomba | punct |
| 15 | Zomba | Zomba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 capital | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Lilongwe | the capital of Malawi | in 1975 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1975=Result | |||
| 2 | replace | gerund | Lilongwe not said here | the previous capital | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Co-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.
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