Lesotho, sentence 172
From Wikipedia, «Lesotho», 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.
In 2007, Lesotho experienced a drought and was advised by the United Nations to declare a state of emergency to get aid from international organizations.
Who acts: Lesotho, United Nations · What happens: experience, advise, declare, get · To what, where: drought, 2007, state, aid, international organizations
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lesotho». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lesotho, United Nations), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2007 | case |
| 2 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 experienced | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2007 | punct |
| 4 | Lesotho | Lesotho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 experienced | nsubj |
| 5 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drought | det |
| 7 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 experienced | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 advised | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 advised | aux:pass |
| 10 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 experienced | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Nations | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Nations | det |
| 13 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 14 Nations | compound |
| 14 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 advised | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 declare | mark |
| 16 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 advised | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 state | det |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 declare | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 emergency | case |
| 20 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 state | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declare | advcl |
| 23 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 organizations | case |
| 25 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 organizations | amod |
| 26 | organizations | organization | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 experienced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | experience | past | Lesotho | a drought | 2007 | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drought=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past · passive | the United Nations | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the United Nations not said here | a state of emergency | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the United Nations not said here | aid | international organizations | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Theme from organization=Source |
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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