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title: The section of line through Lusaka was built by the Mashonaland Rail… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The section of line through Lusaka was built by the Mashonaland Railway Company, extending the line by 281 mi from Kalomo through to the mining town of Broken Hill (now Kabwe). Who acts: Mashonaland Railway Company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 32

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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 section of line through Lusaka was built by the Mashonaland Railway Company, extending the line by 281 mi from Kalomo through to the mining town of Broken Hill (now Kabwe).

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**Who acts:** Mashonaland Railway Company · **What happens:** build, extend, section · **To what, where:** section, line, mining town, 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: who acts (Mashonaland Railway Company), 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:32
# text = The section of line through Lusaka was built by the Mashonaland Railway Company, extending the line by 281 mi from Kalomo through to the mining town of Broken Hill (now Kabwe).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lusaka	Lusaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Mashonaland	Mashonaland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	281	281	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kalomo	Kalomo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	through	through	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Broken	Broken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	Kabwe	Kabwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive | the Mashonaland Railway Company | the section of line through Lusaka |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **extend** | gerund | the Mashonaland Railway Company *not said here* | the line | the mining town of Broken Hill |  |  | by 281 mi from Kalomo; through *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Theme to town=Recipient |
| 3 | **section** |  |  | line |  | Lusaka |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient through=place |

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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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