Zambia, sentence 428
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.
Zamrock has been described as mixing traditional Zambian music with heavy repetitive riffs similar to groups such as Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, and Cream.
What happens: describe, mix, roll · To what, where: Zamrock, traditional Zambian music
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: 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 | Zamrock | Zamrock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 mixing | mark |
| 6 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 described | advcl |
| 7 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 music | amod |
| 8 | Zambian | zambian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 music | amod |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mixing | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 riffs | case |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 riffs | amod |
| 12 | repetitive | repetitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 riffs | amod |
| 13 | riffs | riff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mixing | obl |
| 14 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 riffs | amod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 groups | case |
| 16 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 similar | obl |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Jimi | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | Jimi | Jimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 groups | nmod |
| 20 | Hendrix | Hendrix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jimi | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 James | punct |
| 22 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jimi | conj |
| 23 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 James | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sabbath | punct |
| 25 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sabbath | compound |
| 26 | Sabbath | Sabbath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jimi | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Stones | punct |
| 28 | Rolling | Roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 Stones | amod |
| 29 | Stones | Stone | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Jimi | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Purple | punct |
| 31 | Deep | Deep | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Purple | compound |
| 32 | Purple | Purple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jimi | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Cream | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Cream | cc |
| 35 | Cream | Cream | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect · passive | Zamrock | Cream obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mix | gerund | traditional Zambian music | with heavy repetitive riffs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent music=Patient with riff=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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