Botswana, sentence 219
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.
The government announced in early 2009 that they would try to diversify their economy and avoid overreliance on diamonds.
Who acts: government, Department · What happens: announce, try, diversify, avoid · To what, where: early 2009, economy, overreliance, diamonds · 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 (government, Department), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 2009 | case |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 2009 | amod |
| 6 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 announced | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 try | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 try | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 try | aux |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 announced | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 diversify | mark |
| 12 | diversify | diversify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 try | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 economy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 diversify | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 avoid | cc |
| 16 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 announced | conj |
| 17 | overreliance | overreliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 avoid | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 diamonds | case |
| 19 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 avoid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the government | early 2009 | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | would | Department | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | diversify not said to happen | to-infinitive | Department not said here | Department's economy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient | ||||
| 4 | avoid | present | the government not said here | overreliance | diamonds | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent overreliance=Location |
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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