Lusaka, sentence 71
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.
This was part of a policy devised by Adshead intended to allow internal expansion, rather than the usual central core with suburbs added outside.
Who acts: part · What happens: be, devise, intend, allow, add · To what, where: part, policy, internal expansion, suburbs
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 (part), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 part | det |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 part | cop |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 intended | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 policy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 policy | det |
| 6 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 policy | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Adshead | case |
| 9 | Adshead | Adshead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 devised | obl |
| 10 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 allow | mark |
| 12 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 intended | xcomp |
| 13 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 expansion | amod |
| 14 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allow | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 core | punct |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 core | cc |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 rather | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 core | det |
| 19 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 core | amod |
| 20 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 core | amod |
| 21 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allow | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 suburbs | case |
| 23 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 core | nmod |
| 24 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 suburbs | acl |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 24 added | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this part | of a policy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | devise | participle | a policy not said here | by Adshead | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | intend | past | this part | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive | this part not said here | internal expansion | the usual central core with suburbs obl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expansion=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | add speech: assert | participle | suburbs not said here | outside property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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