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title: He gave prominence to the airport, as well as to the government hous… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave prominence to the airport, as well as to the government house, albeit under a simpler design than that envisaged by Storrs. Who acts: area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 67

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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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He gave prominence to the airport, as well as to the government house, albeit under a simpler design than that envisaged by Storrs.

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**Who acts:** area · **What happens:** give, envisage · **To what, where:** prominence, airport, simpler design

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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 (area), 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:67
# text = He gave prominence to the airport, as well as to the government house, albeit under a simpler design than that envisaged by Storrs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	prominence	prominence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	albeit	albeit	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	simpler	simple	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nmod	_	_
23	envisaged	envisage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Storrs	storr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | area | prominence | the airport |  |  | to the government house albeit a simpler design than that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prominence=Theme to airport=Recipient |
| 2 | **envisage** | participle |  | a simpler design than that *not said here* |  |  |  | by Storrs | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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