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title: Storrs left his post as governor shortly afterwards, on the grounds… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Storrs left his post as governor shortly afterwards, on the grounds of ill health. Who acts: Storrs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 56

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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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Storrs left his post as governor shortly afterwards, on the grounds of ill health.

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**Who acts:** Storrs · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** post, grounds

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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 (Storrs), 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:56
# text = Storrs left his post as governor shortly afterwards, on the grounds of ill health.
1	Storrs	storr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Storrs | Office's post |  | the grounds of ill health |  | as governor; afterwards *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent post=Theme on grounds=Location |

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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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