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title: Zambia and Rhodesia: Prisoners of the Past: A Note on the History of… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Zambia and Rhodesia: Prisoners of the Past: A Note on the History of Railway Politics in Central Africa". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 296

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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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Zambia and Rhodesia: Prisoners of the Past: A Note on the History of Railway Politics in Central Africa".

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**What happens:** note · **To what, where:** Prisoners, Railway Politics, History

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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:296
# text = Zambia and Rhodesia: Prisoners of the Past: A Note on the History of Railway Politics in Central Africa".
1	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Past	Past	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	History	History	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **note** |  |  | Railway Politics in Central Africa |  | the History |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: on=place of=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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