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title: The former Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga was also born in Lusaka. — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The former Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga was also born in Lusaka. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 237

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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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The former Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga was also born in Lusaka.

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**What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Henry, Lusaka

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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: 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:237
# text = The former Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga was also born in Lusaka.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cricketer	cricketer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Olonga	Olonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lusaka	Lusaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Henry  the former Zimbabwe cricketer |  | Lusaka |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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, «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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