Botswana, sentence 321
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.
Ross Branch Ross, a motor-biker, holds the number one place in the South African Cross Country Championship and has competed at the Dakar Rally.
Who acts: Ross · What happens: hold, compete · To what, where: number, Dakar Rally
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 (Ross), 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 | Ross | Ross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | nsubj |
| 2 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ross | compound |
| 3 | Ross | Ross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ross | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 biker | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 biker | det |
| 6 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 biker | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 motor | punct |
| 8 | biker | biker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ross | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ross | punct |
| 10 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 place | nummod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Championship | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Championship | det |
| 17 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cross | compound |
| 18 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cross | compound |
| 19 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Championship | compound |
| 20 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Championship | compound |
| 21 | Championship | Championship | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 competed | cc |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 competed | aux |
| 24 | competed | compete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 holds | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Rally | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Rally | det |
| 27 | Dakar | Dakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rally | compound |
| 28 | Rally | Rally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 competed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Ross and Branch Ross | the number | one place obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme place=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | compete | present · perfect | Ross and Branch Ross not said here | the Dakar Rally | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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.
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