Botswana, sentence 77

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.

This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled by the failure of the Jameson Raid in January 1896.

Who acts: plan, Tswana leaders, failure, Jameson Raid · What happens: be, tour, foil, fail · To what, where: way, England, protest, plan

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 (plan, Tswana leaders, failure, Jameson Raid), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foiled	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 way	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 way	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plan	appos
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 fruition	case
11	fruition	fruition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nmod
12	despite	despite	ADP	_	14 entreaties	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 entreaties	det
14	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fruition	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 leaders	case
16	Tswana	Tswana	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 leaders	compound
17	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 entreaties	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 toured	nsubj
19	toured	tour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 leaders	acl:relcl
20	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 toured	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 protest	case
22	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 toured	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 plan	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 foiled	aux:pass
25	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	26 foiled	advmod
26	foiled	foil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 failure	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 failure	det
29	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foiled	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Raid	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Raid	det
32	Jameson	Jameson	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Raid	compound
33	Raid	Raid	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 failure	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 January	case
35	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 foiled	obl
36	1896	1896	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 January	nmod:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 foiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this plan		plan's way		to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders; well property	tree rules
2	tour	past	Tswana leaders	England	protest			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent england=Location
3	foil	past · passive	the failure of the Jameson Raid	this plan		january	eventually property	tree rules
4	fail		the Jameson Raid					nom failure «act intransitive»: of=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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Botswana, sentence 77