Lusaka, sentence 52
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.
Several thousand Africans migrated to the city in search of construction work, but none was available, leading to large-scale poverty, hunger, and rioting.
Who acts: Africans, none · What happens: migrate, be, lead, riot, search · To what, where: Several thousand, construction work
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 (Africans, none), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thousand | amod |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 migrated | obl |
| 3 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 migrated | nsubj |
| 4 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 migrated | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 search | case |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 11 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | compound |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 available | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 available | cc |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 available | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 available | cop |
| 17 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 migrated | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leading | punct |
| 19 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 available | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 poverty | case |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 scale | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 large | punct |
| 23 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 poverty | compound |
| 24 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leading | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hunger | punct |
| 26 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 poverty | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rioting | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rioting | cc |
| 29 | rioting | riot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 leading | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 migrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | past | Africans | Several thousand | to the city in search of construction work | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | none | available property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | none not said here | to scale poverty and hunger | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to poverty=Patient | ||||
| 4 | riot | gerund | none not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | search | construction work | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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