Lilongwe, sentence 16
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.
The first plan for Lilongwe was published in 1955, before the decision was made in 1965 to move the capital from Zomba to Lilongwe.
What happens: publish, make, move · To what, where: first plan, 1955, decision, 1965, capital, Lilongwe
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 plan | amod |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 published | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Lilongwe | case |
| 5 | Lilongwe | Lilongwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 plan | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 published | aux:pass |
| 7 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1955 | case |
| 9 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 published | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 decision | det |
| 13 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 published | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1965 | case |
| 17 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 move | mark |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 capital | det |
| 21 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 move | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Zomba | case |
| 23 | Zomba | Zomba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 move | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Lilongwe | case |
| 25 | Lilongwe | Lilongwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 move | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past · passive | the first plan for Lilongwe | 1955 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the decision | 1965 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | the capital | Lilongwe | Zomba | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient capital=Extent from zomba=Initial_State to lilongwe=Result |
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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