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title: Zamrock has been described as mixing traditional Zambian music with… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Zamrock has been described as mixing traditional Zambian music with heavy repetitive riffs similar to groups such as Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, and Cream. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 428

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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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Zamrock has been described as mixing traditional Zambian music with heavy repetitive riffs similar to groups such as Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, and Cream.

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**What happens:** describe, mix, roll · **To what, where:** Zamrock, traditional Zambian music

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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: 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:428
# text = Zamrock has been described as mixing traditional Zambian music with heavy repetitive riffs similar to groups such as Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, and Cream.
1	Zamrock	Zamrock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Zambian	zambian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	repetitive	repetitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	riffs	riff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	Jimi	Jimi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Hendrix	Hendrix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sabbath	Sabbath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Rolling	Roll	VERB	NNP	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	Stones	Stone	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Deep	Deep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Purple	Purple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Cream	Cream	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive |  | Zamrock |  |  |  | Cream *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **mix** | gerund |  | traditional Zambian music |  |  |  | with heavy repetitive riffs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent music=Patient with riff=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **roll** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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