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title: This was part of a policy devised by Adshead intended to allow inter… — Lusaka · tree and pragmatics
description: This was part of a policy devised by Adshead intended to allow internal expansion, rather than the usual central core with suburbs added outside. Who acts: part. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lusaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lusaka, sentence 71

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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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This was part of a policy devised by Adshead intended to allow internal expansion, rather than the usual central core with suburbs added outside.

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**Who acts:** part · **What happens:** be, devise, intend, allow, add · **To what, where:** part, policy, internal expansion, suburbs

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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 (part), 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:71
# text = This was part of a policy devised by Adshead intended to allow internal expansion, rather than the usual central core with suburbs added outside.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Adshead	Adshead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | this part |  |  |  | of a policy | tree rules |
| 2 | **devise** | participle |  | a policy *not said here* |  |  |  | by Adshead | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **intend** | past | this part |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **allow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this part *not said here* | internal expansion |  |  |  | the usual central core with suburbs *obl* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expansion=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | suburbs *not said here* |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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