Gaborone, sentence 26
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 modern town was only founded in 1964, after a decision was taken to establish a capital for Botswana, which became a self governing territory in 1965, before becoming a fully independent republic on 30 September 1966.
Who acts: Botswana · What happens: found, take, establish, become, govern · To what, where: modern town, 1964, decision, capital, governing territory, 1965
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), 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 | 3 town | det |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 founded | aux:pass |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 founded | advmod |
| 6 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1964 | case |
| 8 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 founded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 decision | det |
| 12 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 founded | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 establish | mark |
| 16 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 establish | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Botswana | case |
| 20 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 establish | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Botswana | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 territory | det |
| 25 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 governing | compound |
| 26 | governing | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 territory | amod |
| 27 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1965 | case |
| 29 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 became | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 becoming | punct |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 becoming | mark |
| 32 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 establish | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 republic | det |
| 34 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 35 independent | advmod |
| 35 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 republic | amod |
| 36 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 becoming | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 30 | case |
| 38 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 becoming | obl |
| 39 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 1966 | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 becoming | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the modern town | 1964 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | a decision | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | establish | to-infinitive | a capital | for Botswana | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Botswana | a governing territory | in 1965 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1965=Result | |||
| 5 | govern | gerund | self compound | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | become | gerund | a independent republic | 30 | 1966 September obl:unmarked | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
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