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title: Two areas have been called Lobamba, the first now called "Old Lobamb… — Lobamba · tree and pragmatics
description: Two areas have been called Lobamba, the first now called "Old Lobamba" was established in 1750 in southern Eswatini. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lobamba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lobamba, sentence 15

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From Wikipedia, [«Lobamba»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobamba), 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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Two areas have been called Lobamba, the first now called "Old Lobamba" was established in 1750 in southern Eswatini.

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**What happens:** call, establish · **To what, where:** Two areas, Lobamba, 1750 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lobamba». 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:Lobamba:15
# text = Two areas have been called Lobamba, the first now called "Old Lobamba" was established in 1750 in southern Eswatini.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Lobamba	Lobamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	appos	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Lobamba	Lobamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1750	1750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Eswatini	Eswatini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | Two areas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | Old Lobamba *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Lobamba |  | 1750 |  | in southern Eswatini | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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, «Lobamba», 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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