Lusaka, sentence 62

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.

Young refused their demand to compensate them financially, but he sought to placate them by establishing Livingstone as the protectorate's tourism capital, with a new museum and a game reserve.

Who acts: Young, resistance, capital · What happens: refuse, not compensate, seek, placate, establish, demand · To what, where: demand, capital, Livingstone

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 (Young, resistance, capital), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 demand	nmod:poss
4	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 compensate	mark
6	compensate	compensate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 compensate	obj
8	financially	financially	ADV	_	6 compensate	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sought	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sought	nsubj
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 placate	mark
14	placate	placate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sought	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 placate	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 establishing	mark
17	establishing	establish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 placate	advcl
18	Livingstone	Livingstone	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 establishing	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	24 capital	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 protectorate	det
21	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 capital	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 protectorate	case
23	tourism	tourism	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 capital	compound
24	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 establishing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 museum	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 museum	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 museum	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 museum	amod
29	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 reserve	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 reserve	det
32	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reserve	compound
33	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 museum	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Young	capital's demand		tree rules
2	not compensate	to-infinitive	Young not said here	capital	financially property	vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Recipient
3	seek	past	resistance		a new museum and a game reserve parataxis	tree rules
4	placate not said to happen	to-infinitive	resistance not said here	capital		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	establish	gerund	resistance not said here	Livingstone	as the protectorate's tourism capital	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livingstone=Patient
6	demand		capital			nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 62