Lusaka, sentence 25

From Wikipedia, «Lusaka», 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.

Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, although with German East Africa blocking the route to the north of BSAC territory, he could not progress it during his lifetime.

Who acts: Rhodes, strong believer, Africa · What happens: be, block, not progress · To what, where: strong believer, Cape, route

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 (Rhodes, strong believer, Africa), 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	Rhodes	rhode	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 believer	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 believer	amod
5	believer	believer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Cape	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cape	det
8	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 believer	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 project	case
10	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 project	compound
11	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 project	compound
12	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Cape	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blocking	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 blocking	mark
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
16	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Africa	amod
17	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Africa	compound
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 blocking	obl
19	blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 believer	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 route	det
21	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocking	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 north	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 north	det
24	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 territory	case
26	BSAC	BSAC	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 territory	compound
27	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 north	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 believer	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 progress	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 progress	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 progress	advmod
32	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believer	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 progress	nsubj
34	during	during	ADP	_	36 lifetime	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lifetime	nmod:poss
36	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 progress	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rhodes	a strong believer	the Cape to Cairo railway project			tree rules
2	block	gerund	a strong believer not said here	the route			with German East Africa; to the north of BSAC territory	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent route=Destination with africa=Theme
3	not progress	could	Africa			during Africa's lifetime	route nsubj	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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Lusaka, sentence 25