Zambia, sentence 156

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.

Zambia's support for anti-apartheid movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) also created security problems as the South African Defence Force struck at dissident targets during external raids.

Who acts: support, African Defence Force, Zambia · What happens: create, strike, support · To what, where: security problems

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 (support, African Defence Force, Zambia), 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	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 support	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Zambia	case
3	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 created	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 movements	case
5	anti-apartheid	anti-apartheid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 movements	compound
6	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 support	nmod
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 Congress	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Congress	det
10	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Congress	compound
11	National	National	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Congress	amod
12	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 movements	nmod
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 ANC	punct
14	ANC	ANC	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Congress	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 ANC	punct
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 created	advmod
17	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 problems	compound
19	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 created	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 struck	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Force	det
22	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 African	compound
23	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Force	compound
24	Defence	Defence	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Force	compound
25	Force	Force	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 struck	nsubj
26	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 created	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 targets	case
28	dissident	dissident	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 targets	compound
29	targets	target	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 struck	obl
30	during	during	ADP	_	32 raids	case
31	external	external	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 raids	amod
32	raids	raid	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 struck	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 created	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	create	past	Zambia's support for anti-apartheid movements such the African National Congress	security problems			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Result
2	strike	past	the African Defence Force		during external raids	at dissident targets	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at target=Patient
3	support		Zambia			for anti-apartheid movements such the African National Congress	nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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Zambia, sentence 156