Lusaka, sentence 32
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.
The section of line through Lusaka was built by the Mashonaland Railway Company, extending the line by 281 mi from Kalomo through to the mining town of Broken Hill (now Kabwe).
Who acts: Mashonaland Railway Company · What happens: build, extend, section · To what, where: section, line, mining town, Lusaka
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 (Mashonaland Railway Company), 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 | 2 section | det |
| 2 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 line | case |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 section | nmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 Lusaka | case |
| 6 | Lusaka | Lusaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 section | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 built | aux:pass |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Company | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Company | det |
| 11 | Mashonaland | Mashonaland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Company | compound |
| 12 | Railway | Railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Company | compound |
| 13 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 extending | punct |
| 15 | extending | extend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 built | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 extending | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 mi | case |
| 19 | 281 | 281 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 mi | nummod |
| 20 | mi | mi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 extending | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Kalomo | case |
| 22 | Kalomo | Kalomo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mi | nmod |
| 23 | through | through | ADV | _ | 15 extending | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 26 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 town | compound |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 extending | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Hill | case |
| 29 | Broken | Broken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hill | compound |
| 30 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 town | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Kabwe | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 Kabwe | advmod |
| 33 | Kabwe | Kabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hill | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Kabwe | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the Mashonaland Railway Company | the section of line through Lusaka | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | extend | gerund | the Mashonaland Railway Company not said here | the line | the mining town of Broken Hill | by 281 mi from Kalomo; through property | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Theme to town=Recipient | ||
| 3 | section | line | Lusaka | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient through=place |
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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