Botswana, sentence 293
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.
Botswana's music is mostly vocal and performed, sometimes without drums depending on the occasion; it also makes heavy use of string instruments.
Who acts: music, drums · What happens: be, perform, depend, make, use · To what, where: heavy use, string instruments
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 (music, drums), 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 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 music | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Botswana | case |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vocal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vocal | cop |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 vocal | advmod |
| 6 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 performed | cc |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 vocal | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drums | punct |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 drums | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 drums | case |
| 12 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 performed | obl |
| 13 | depending | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 drums | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 occasion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 occasion | det |
| 16 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depending | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 makes | advmod |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vocal | conj |
| 21 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 use | amod |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 makes | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instruments | case |
| 24 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 instruments | compound |
| 25 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vocal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Botswana's music | mostly, vocal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | participle | Botswana's music not said here | without drums | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | depend | gerund | drums not said here | on the occasion | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on occasion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | music | heavy use of string instruments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material use=Product | ||||
| 5 | use | string instruments | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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