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title: Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, a… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, although with German East Africa blocking the route to the north of BSAC territory, he could not progress it during his lifetime. Who acts: Rhodes, strong believer, Africa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree 
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# Lusaka, sentence 25

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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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Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, although with German East Africa blocking the route to the north of BSAC territory, he could not progress it during his lifetime.

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**Who acts:** Rhodes, strong believer, Africa · **What happens:** be, block, not progress · **To what, where:** strong believer, Cape, route

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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 (Rhodes, strong believer, Africa), 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:25
# text = Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, although with German East Africa blocking the route to the north of BSAC territory, he could not progress it during his lifetime.
1	Rhodes	rhode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	believer	believer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	blocking	block	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	BSAC	BSAC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
34	during	during	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rhodes | a strong believer |  | the Cape to Cairo railway project |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **block** | gerund | a strong believer *not said here* | the route |  |  |  | with German East Africa; to the north of BSAC territory | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent route=Destination with africa=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **progress** | could | Africa |  |  |  | during Africa's lifetime | route *nsubj* | 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, «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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