Zambia, sentence 103
From Wikipedia, «Zambia», 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.
They trained the men in military tactics and gave them guns.
Who acts: estates · What happens: train, give · To what, where: men, military tactics, guns, estates
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (estates), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trained | nsubj |
| 2 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trained | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tactics | case |
| 6 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tactics | amod |
| 7 | tactics | tactic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trained | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trained | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | past | estates = estate | the men | military tactics | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | estates = estate not said here | guns | estates = estate | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gun=Theme |
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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