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title: After an appeal failed and the couple was sentenced to 15 years in p… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: After an appeal failed and the couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Foote asked the Zambian government to review both the case and the country's anti-homosexuality laws. Who acts: appeal, Foote, Zambian government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 217

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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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After an appeal failed and the couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Foote asked the Zambian government to review both the case and the country's anti-homosexuality laws.

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**Who acts:** appeal, Foote, Zambian government · **What happens:** fail, sentence, ask, review · **To what, where:** couple, prison, Zambian government, case

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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 (appeal, Foote, Zambian government), 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:217
# text = After an appeal failed and the couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Foote asked the Zambian government to review both the case and the country's anti-homosexuality laws.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	appeal	appeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sentenced	sentence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	Foote	Foote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Zambian	zambian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	review	review	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	anti-homosexuality	anti-homosexuality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | a appeal |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sentence** | past · passive |  | the couple |  | prison | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Foote | the Zambian government |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent government=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **review** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Zambian government *not said here* | the case and anti-homosexuality laws |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme |

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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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