Zambia, sentence 217
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.
After an appeal failed and the couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Foote asked the Zambian government to review both the case and the country's anti-homosexuality laws.
Who acts: appeal, Foote, Zambian government · What happens: fail, sentence, ask, review · To what, where: couple, prison, Zambian government, case
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 (appeal, Foote, Zambian government), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 failed | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 appeal | det |
| 3 | appeal | appeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sentenced | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentenced | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sentenced | aux:pass |
| 9 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 failed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sentenced | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 prison | case |
| 14 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentenced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
| 16 | Foote | Foote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 government | det |
| 19 | Zambian | zambian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 government | amod |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 review | mark |
| 22 | review | review | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 case | cc:preconj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 case | det |
| 25 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 review | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 laws | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 anti-homosexuality | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 country | case |
| 30 | anti-homosexuality | anti-homosexuality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laws | compound |
| 31 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 case | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | a appeal | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sentence | past · passive | the couple | prison | year | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Foote | the Zambian government | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent government=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | review not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Zambian government not said here | the case and anti-homosexuality laws | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=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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