Gaborone, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «Gaborone», 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 Botswana national football team plays in the National Stadium, but has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, even though they recently qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Gabon in January 2012.
Who acts: Botswana, national football team, teams · What happens: team, play, have, qualify, hold · To what, where: National Stadium, qualified, Africa Cup, Gabon
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Gaborone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Botswana, national football team, teams), 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 | 5 team | det |
| 2 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 team | nsubj |
| 3 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 team | amod |
| 4 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 team | compound |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plays | nsubj |
| 6 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Stadium | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stadium | det |
| 9 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Stadium | amod |
| 10 | Stadium | Stadium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 plays | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plays | conj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 qualified | advmod |
| 15 | qualified | qualified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Cup | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Cup | det |
| 18 | FIFA | FIFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Cup | compound |
| 19 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Cup | compound |
| 20 | Cup | Cup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 qualified | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 qualified | punct |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 qualified | advmod |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 qualified | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 qualified | nsubj |
| 25 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 26 qualified | advmod |
| 26 | qualified | qualify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plays | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Cup | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Cup | det |
| 29 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Cup | compound |
| 30 | Cup | Cup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 qualified | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Nations | case |
| 32 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 Cup | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 held | punct |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Cup | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Gabon | case |
| 36 | Gabon | Gabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 January | case |
| 38 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obl |
| 39 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | team | Botswana | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | play | present | the national football team | the National Stadium | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the national football team not said here | qualified for the FIFA World Cup | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent qualified=Patient | ||||
| 4 | qualify | past | teams = team | for the Africa Cup of Nations; recently property | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hold | participle | the Africa Cup of Nations not said here | Gabon | january | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gabon=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, «Gaborone», 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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