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title: It is also the language used by large business, most newspapers and… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also the language used by large business, most newspapers and media, as well as the government. Who acts: Many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 161

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From Wikipedia, [«Lusaka»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka), 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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It is also the language used by large business, most newspapers and media, as well as the government.

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**Who acts:** Many · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** language

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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 (Many), 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:Lusaka:161
# text = It is also the language used by large business, most newspapers and media, as well as the government.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Many | the language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the language *not said here* |  |  |  | by large business and most newspapers and media as the government | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «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.

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