Botswana, sentence 175
From Wikipedia, «Botswana», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Furthermore, they show that Botswana lost its status as a "liberal democracy" in 2021, with its liberal, participatory and deliberative components decreasing "at a statistically significant level", with the latter component being noted as becoming "significantly worse".
Who acts: elections, Botswana, liberal components, democracy · What happens: show, lose, decrease, note, compose · To what, where: status, 2021, significant level, latter component · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Botswana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elections, Botswana, liberal components, democracy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furthermore | furthermore | ADV | _ | 4 show | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Furthermore | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 6 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | ccomp |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 status | nmod:poss |
| 9 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 democracy | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 democracy | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 democracy | punct |
| 13 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 democracy | amod |
| 14 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 democracy | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 2021 | case |
| 17 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 lost | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 components | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 components | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 components | nmod:poss |
| 21 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 components | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 participatory | punct |
| 23 | participatory | participatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 liberal | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deliberative | cc |
| 25 | deliberative | deliberative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 liberal | conj |
| 26 | components | component | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lost | obl |
| 27 | decreasing | decrease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 components | acl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 decreasing | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 level | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 level | det |
| 31 | statistically | statistically | ADV | _ | 32 significant | advmod |
| 32 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 level | amod |
| 33 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 decreasing | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 component | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 component | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 component | det |
| 38 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 component | amod |
| 39 | component | component | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | parataxis |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 noted | aux:pass |
| 41 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 component | acl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 becoming | case |
| 43 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 noted | obl |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 component | punct |
| 45 | significantly | significantly | ADV | _ | 46 worse | advmod |
| 46 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 component | acl:relcl |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 worse | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | elections = election | furthermore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Botswana | democracy's status | 2021 | as a liberal democracy; with democracy's liberal components; the latter component parataxis | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | decrease | gerund | democracy's liberal components not said here | a significant level | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | note | gerund · passive | the latter component not said here | as becoming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 5 | compose | democracy | nom component «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Botswana», 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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