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Zambia, sentence 57

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.

The arts were also held in high esteem in the kingdom, and artisans were held in high regard.

What happens: hold · To what, where: arts, high esteem, artisans, high regard

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

detnsubj:passaux:passadvmodcaseamodoblcasedetnmodpunctccnsubj:passaux:passconjcaseamodoblpunctrootTheDETartsNOUNwereAUXalsoADVheldVERBinADPhighADJesteemNOUNinADPtheDETkingdomNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJartisansNOUNwereAUXheldVERBinADPhighADJregardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 artsdet
2artsartNOUNNumber=Plur5 heldnsubj:pass
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 heldaux:pass
4alsoalsoADV_5 heldadvmod
5heldholdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6ininADP_8 esteemcase
7highhighADJDegree=Pos8 esteemamod
8esteemesteemNOUNNumber=Sing5 heldobl
9ininADP_11 kingdomcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdomdet
11kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing8 esteemnmod
12,,PUNCT_16 heldpunct
13andandCCONJ_16 heldcc
14artisansartisanNOUNNumber=Plur16 heldnsubj:pass
15werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 heldaux:pass
16heldholdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 heldconj
17ininADP_19 regardcase
18highhighADJDegree=Pos19 regardamod
19regardregardNOUNNumber=Sing16 heldobl
20..PUNCT_5 heldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1holdpast · passivethe artshigh esteem in the kingdomvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in esteem=Location
2holdpast · passiveartisanshigh regardvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in regard=Location

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Zambia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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