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Lesotho, sentence 60

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.

After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and Letsie III abdicated in favour of his father in 1995, and ascended the throne again when Moshoeshoe II died at the age of 57 in a supposed road accident when his car plunged off a mountain road on 15 January 1996.

Who acts: Letsie, Moshoeshoe, car · What happens: protract, reinstate, abdicate, ascend, die, suppose · To what, where: BCP government, favour, throne, age, mountain road, 15

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 (Letsie, Moshoeshoe, car), 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

caseamodoblpunctdetcompoundnsubjaux:passccnsubjflatconjcaseoblcasenmod:possnmodcaseoblpunctccconjdetobjadvmodmarknsubjflatadvclcasedetoblcasenmodcasedetamodcompoundobladvmodnmod:possnsubjadvclcompound:prtdetcompoundobjcaseoblnmod:unmarkedflatpunctrootAfterADPprotractedVERBnegotiationsNOUN,PUNCTtheDETBCPPROPNgovernmentNOUNwasAUXreinstatedVERBandCCONJLetsiePROPNIIINUMabdicatedVERBinADPfavourNOUNofADPhisPRONfatherNOUNinADP1995NUM,PUNCTandCCONJascendedVERBtheDETthroneNOUNagainADVwhenSCONJMoshoeshoePROPNIINUMdiedVERBatADPtheDETageNOUNofADP57NUMinADPaDETsupposedVERBroadNOUNaccidentNOUNwhenADVhisPRONcarNOUNplungedVERBoffADPaDETmountainNOUNroadNOUNonADP15NUMJanuaryPROPN1996NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_3 negotiationscase
2protractedprotractVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 negotiationsamod
3negotiationsnegotiationNOUNNumber=Plur9 reinstatedobl
4,,PUNCT_3 negotiationspunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 governmentdet
6BCPBCPPROPNNumber=Sing7 governmentcompound
7governmentgovernmentNOUNNumber=Sing9 reinstatednsubj
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 reinstatedaux:pass
9reinstatedreinstateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10andandCCONJ_13 abdicatedcc
11LetsieLetsiePROPNNumber=Sing13 abdicatednsubj
12IIIIIINUMNumForm=Roman NumType=Card11 Letsieflat
13abdicatedabdicateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 reinstatedconj
14ininADP_15 favourcase
15favourfavourNOUNNumber=Sing13 abdicatedobl
16ofofADP_18 fathercase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 fathernmod:poss
18fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing15 favournmod
19ininADP_20 1995case
2019951995NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card13 abdicatedobl
21,,PUNCT_23 ascendedpunct
22andandCCONJ_23 ascendedcc
23ascendedascendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 reinstatedconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 thronedet
25thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing23 ascendedobj
26againagainADV_23 ascendedadvmod
27whenwhenSCONJ_30 diedmark
28MoshoeshoeMoshoeshoePROPNNumber=Sing30 diednsubj
29IIIINUMNumForm=Roman NumType=Card28 Moshoeshoeflat
30dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 ascendedadvcl
31atatADP_33 agecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 agedet
33ageageNOUNNumber=Sing30 diedobl
34ofofADP_35 57case
355757NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card33 agenmod
36ininADP_40 accidentcase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 accidentdet
38supposedsupposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass40 accidentamod
39roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing40 accidentcompound
40accidentaccidentNOUNNumber=Sing30 diedobl
41whenwhenADVPronType=Int44 plungedadvmod
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 carnmod:poss
43carcarNOUNNumber=Sing44 plungednsubj
44plungedplungeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 ascendedadvcl
45offoffADP_44 plungedcompound:prt
46aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 roaddet
47mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing48 roadcompound
48roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing44 plungedobj
49ononADP_50 15case
501515NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card44 plungedobl
51JanuaryJanuaryPROPNNumber=Sing50 15nmod:unmarked
5219961996NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card50 15flat
53..PUNCT_9 reinstatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1protractparticiplevn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2reinstatepast · passivethe BCP governmentafter protracted negotiationsvn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3abdicateparticipleLetsiefavour of Letsie's fatherin 1995vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4ascendpastthe throneagainvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory
5diepastMoshoeshoeat the age of 57in a supposed road accidentvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in accident=Attribute
6supposeparticiplevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7plunge offpastLetsie's cara mountain road15 Januaryvn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
8favourLetsie's fathernom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lesotho», 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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