Lusaka, sentence 98

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.

As discontent with federation rose, a new group of African leaders emerged in the late 1950s, seeking majority rule and independence for Northern Rhodesia, as had recently been attained in Ghana.

Who acts: new group · What happens: emerge, seek, have, attain · To what, where: late 1950s, majority rule, Ghana

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 (new group), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 discontent	case
2	discontent	discontent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 emerged	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rose	case
4	federation	federation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	compound
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discontent	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 discontent	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 group	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 group	amod
9	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 emerged	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leaders	case
11	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 leaders	amod
12	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 group	nmod
13	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 1950s	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 1950s	det
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 1950s	amod
17	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 emerged	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeking	punct
19	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 emerged	advcl
20	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rule	compound
21	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeking	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 independence	cc
23	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rule	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 Rhodesia	case
25	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Rhodesia	amod
26	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 seeking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 attained	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 attained	mark
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 attained	parataxis
30	recently	recently	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 attained	aux:pass
32	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 emerged	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Ghana	case
34	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 attained	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 emerged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	emerge	past	a new group of African leaders		the late 1950s	as discontent with federation rose	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1950=Location
2	seek	gerund	a new group of African leaders not said here	majority rule and independence		for Northern Rhodesia	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rule=Location for rhodesia=Theme
3	have	participle				recently property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	attain	participle · passive	a new group of African leaders not said here		Ghana		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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 98