Botswana, sentence 349
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 product is inexpensive compared to many similar devices, which can start at around $600.
Who acts: product, many similar devices · What happens: be, compare, start
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 (product, many similar devices), 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 product | det |
| 2 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inexpensive | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inexpensive | cop |
| 4 | inexpensive | inexpensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inexpensive | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 devices | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 devices | amod |
| 8 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 devices | amod |
| 9 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 compared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 start | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 start | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 start | aux |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 devices | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 $ | case |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 $ | advmod |
| 16 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 13 start | obl |
| 17 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 $ | nummod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inexpensive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the product | inexpensive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | participle | the product not said here | to many similar devices | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | start | can | many similar devices | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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