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title: The majority of Zambians trace their ancestry to the Luba-Lunda and… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: The majority of Zambians trace their ancestry to the Luba-Lunda and surrounding Central African states. Who acts: majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 74

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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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The majority of Zambians trace their ancestry to the Luba-Lunda and surrounding Central African states.

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**Who acts:** majority · **What happens:** trace, surround · **To what, where:** ancestry

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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 (majority), 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:74
# text = The majority of Zambians trace their ancestry to the Luba-Lunda and surrounding Central African states.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Zambians	zambian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	trace	trace	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Luba	Luba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Lunda	Lunda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
15	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | present | the majority of Zambians | Zambians's ancestry |  |  |  | to the Luba Lunda and surrounding Central African states | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestry=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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