--- title: Lusaka is located on the plateau, in south-central Zambia at 15°25′S… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics description: Lusaka is located on the plateau, in south-central Zambia at 15°25′S 28°17′E, with an altitude of 1280 m. It is located 472 km north east of the tourism capital, Livingstone, and 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt, Zambia's second-largest city. Who acts: 1280 m.. 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It is located 472 km north east of the tourism capital, Livingstone, and 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt, Zambia's second-largest city. **Who acts:** 1280 m. · **What happens:** locate · **To what, where:** Lusaka, plateau This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lusaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1280 m.), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Lusaka:123 # text = Lusaka is located on the plateau, in south-central Zambia at 15°25′S 28°17′E, with an altitude of 1280 m. It is located 472 km north east of the tourism capital, Livingstone, and 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt, Zambia's second-largest city. 1 Lusaka Lusaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 plateau plateau NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 south south ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Zambia Zambia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ° ° SYM SYM _ 16 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ′ ′ NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 list _ SpaceAfter=No 18 S 's PART POS Typo=Yes 17 case _ _ 19 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ° ° SYM SYM _ 21 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ′ ′ NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 E E PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 altitude altitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 1280 1280 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 m. m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 472 472 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 north north ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 east east ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 tourism tourism NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 Livingstone Livingstone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 362 362 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Kitwe Kitwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 Copperbelt Copperbelt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 Zambia Zambia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 55 's 's PART POS _ 54 case _ _ 56 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 59 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 59 amod _ _ 59 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **locate** | present · passive | | Lusaka | | the plateau | | 362 km from Kitwe on the Copperbelt and Zambia's second largest city *obl*; central Zambia at 15 ° 25 ′ *parataxis*; a altitude of 1280 m. *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **locate** | present · passive | 1280 m. *not said here* | plateau | | | | 472 km *obl:unmarked*; east *property* | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Lusaka», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lusaka/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lusaka/124/) - ↑ back to [Lusaka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lusaka/)