Lusaka, sentence 123
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Lusaka is located on the plateau, in south-central Zambia at 15°25′S 28°17′E, with an altitude of 1280 m. It is located 472 km north east of the tourism capital, Livingstone, and 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt, Zambia's second-largest city.
Who acts: 1280 m. · What happens: locate · To what, where: Lusaka, plateau
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lusaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1280 m.), 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 | Lusaka | Lusaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 located | aux:pass |
| 3 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plateau | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plateau | det |
| 6 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Zambia | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Zambia | case |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 11 central | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 south | punct |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Zambia | amod |
| 12 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 15 | case |
| 14 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Zambia | nmod |
| 15 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 16 25 | case |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 15 | nmod |
| 17 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Zambia | list |
| 18 | S | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 17 ′ | case |
| 19 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 ′ | appos |
| 20 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 21 17 | case |
| 21 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 28 | nmod |
| 22 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 E | nmod:desc |
| 23 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 17 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 altitude | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 altitude | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 altitude | det |
| 27 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 m. | case |
| 29 | 1280 | 1280 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 m. | nummod |
| 30 | m. | m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 altitude | nmod |
| 31 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 located | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 located | aux:pass |
| 33 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 m. | acl:relcl |
| 34 | 472 | 472 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 km | nummod |
| 35 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 located | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | north | north | ADV | _ | 37 east | advmod |
| 37 | east | east | ADV | _ | 33 located | advmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 capital | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 capital | det |
| 40 | tourism | tourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 capital | compound |
| 41 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 east | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Livingstone | punct |
| 43 | Livingstone | Livingstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 capital | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 km | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 km | cc |
| 46 | 362 | 362 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 km | nummod |
| 47 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 Kitwe | case |
| 49 | Kitwe | Kitwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 km | nmod |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 Copperbelt | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Copperbelt | det |
| 52 | Copperbelt | Copperbelt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 km | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 city | punct |
| 54 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 city | nmod:poss |
| 55 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 54 Zambia | case |
| 56 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 59 city | amod |
| 57 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 second | punct |
| 58 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 59 city | amod |
| 59 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Copperbelt | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | Lusaka | the plateau | 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt and Zambia's second largest city obl; central Zambia at 15 ° 25 ′ parataxis; a altitude of 1280 m. parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | locate | present · passive | 1280 m. not said here | plateau | 472 km obl:unmarked; east property | tree rules |
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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