Zambia, sentence 79
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 Maravi Empire stretched from the Indian Ocean through what today is Mozambique to Zambia and central parts of Malawi.
Who acts: Maravi Empire · What happens: stretch, be · To what, where: Indian Ocean, today Mozambique, Zambia
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 (Maravi Empire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Maravi | Maravi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Ocean | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ocean | det |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ocean | amod |
| 8 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 stretched | obl |
| 11 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Mozambique | compound |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Mozambique | cop |
| 13 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Zambia | case |
| 15 | Zambia | Zambia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mozambique | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 parts | cc |
| 17 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parts | amod |
| 18 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Mozambique | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Malawi | case |
| 20 | Malawi | Malawi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 parts | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the Maravi Empire | the Indian Ocean | what obl | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ocean=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | today Mozambique and central parts of Malawi | Zambia | central parts of Malawi conj | tree rules |
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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