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title: Zambia (/ˈzæmbiə,_ˈzɑːm-/), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Zambia (/ˈzæmbiə,_ˈzɑːm-/), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Who acts: Zambia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Zambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia), 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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Zambia (/ˈzæmbiə,\_ˈzɑːm-/), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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**Who acts:** Zambia · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** landlocked country, Southern Africa

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zambia), 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:Zambia:1
# text = Zambia (/ˈzæmbiə,_ˈzɑːm-/), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
1	Zambia	zambia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ˈzæmbiə	ˈzæmbiə	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ˈzɑːm-	ˈzɑːm-	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	23	flat	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Zambia | a landlocked country |  | Southern Africa |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Zambia», 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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