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title: Maxwell and Alexander then investigated possible sites for the new c… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Maxwell and Alexander then investigated possible sites for the new city, eventually choosing Lusaka as a result of its situation on the railway and at the crossroads of Northern Rhodesia's Great North Road and Great East Road. Who acts: Maxwell. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency
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# Lusaka, sentence 46

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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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Maxwell and Alexander then investigated possible sites for the new city, eventually choosing Lusaka as a result of its situation on the railway and at the crossroads of Northern Rhodesia's Great North Road and Great East Road.

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**Who acts:** Maxwell · **What happens:** investigate, choose, result · **To what, where:** possible sites, Lusaka, railway, situation

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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 (Maxwell), 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:46
# text = Maxwell and Alexander then investigated possible sites for the new city, eventually choosing Lusaka as a result of its situation on the railway and at the crossroads of Northern Rhodesia's Great North Road and Great East Road.
1	Maxwell	Maxwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	investigated	investigate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	Lusaka	Lusaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **investigate** | past | Maxwell and Alexander | possible sites |  |  | then | for the new city | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent site=Theme for city=Attribute |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund | Maxwell and Alexander *not said here* | Lusaka |  | the railway and the crossroads of Rhodesia Great North Road and Great East Road |  | as a result of result's situation; eventually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lusaka=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | result's situation |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: 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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