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title: This is primarily because development and building control is easily… — Lilongwe · tree and pragmatics
description: This is primarily because development and building control is easily applied to such a specific zoning. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lilongwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lilongwe, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Lilongwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilongwe), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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This is primarily because development and building control is easily applied to such a specific zoning.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** This

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lilongwe». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Lilongwe:101
# text = This is primarily because development and building control is easily applied to such a specific zoning.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
3	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	zoning	zoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | This |  |  |  | to such specific zoning; development and building control *nsubj:pass*; apply, easily, primarily *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Lilongwe», 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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