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title: The Maravi Empire stretched from the Indian Ocean through what today… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maravi Empire stretched from the Indian Ocean through what today is Mozambique to Zambia and central parts of Malawi. Who acts: Maravi Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zambia, sentence 79

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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 Maravi Empire stretched from the Indian Ocean through what today is Mozambique to Zambia and central parts of Malawi.

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**Who acts:** Maravi Empire · **What happens:** stretch, be · **To what, where:** Indian Ocean, today Mozambique, Zambia

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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 (Maravi Empire), 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:79
# text = The Maravi Empire stretched from the Indian Ocean through what today is Mozambique to Zambia and central parts of Malawi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maravi	Maravi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Zambia	Zambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Malawi	Malawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | the Maravi Empire |  |  | the Indian Ocean |  | what *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ocean=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | today Mozambique and central parts of Malawi | Zambia |  |  | central parts of Malawi *conj* | 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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