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Lesotho, sentence 94

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.

The upper house of parliament, the Senate, is composed of 22 principal chiefs whose membership is hereditary, and 11 appointees of the king, acting on the advice of the prime minister.

Who acts: 22 principal chiefs, membership · What happens: compose, be, act · To what, where: upper house, advice

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 (22 principal chiefs, membership), 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

detamodnsubj:passcasenmodpunctdetconjpunctaux:passcasenummodamodobl:agentnmod:possnsubjcopacl:relclpunctccnummodoblcasedetnmodpunctadvclcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctrootTheDETupperADJhouseNOUNofADPparliamentNOUN,PUNCTtheDETSenatePROPN,PUNCTisAUXcomposedVERBofADP22NUMprincipalADJchiefsNOUNwhosePRONmembershipNOUNisAUXhereditaryADJ,PUNCTandCCONJ11NUMappointeesNOUNofADPtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTactingVERBonADPtheDETadviceNOUNofADPtheDETprimeADJministerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 housedet
2upperupperADJDegree=Pos3 houseamod
3househouseNOUNNumber=Sing11 composednsubj:pass
4ofofADP_5 parliamentcase
5parliamentparliamentNOUNNumber=Sing3 housenmod
6,,PUNCT_8 Senatepunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Senatedet
8SenateSenatePROPNNumber=Sing3 houseconj
9,,PUNCT_3 housepunct
10isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 composedaux:pass
11composedcomposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
12ofofADP_15 chiefscase
132222NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card15 chiefsnummod
14principalprincipalADJDegree=Pos15 chiefsamod
15chiefschiefNOUNNumber=Plur11 composedobl:agent
16whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel17 membershipnmod:poss
17membershipmembershipNOUNNumber=Sing19 hereditarynsubj
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 hereditarycop
19hereditaryhereditaryADJDegree=Pos15 chiefsacl:relcl
20,,PUNCT_23 appointeespunct
21andandCCONJ_23 appointeescc
221111NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card23 appointeesnummod
23appointeesappointeeNOUNNumber=Plur11 composedobl
24ofofADP_26 kingcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 kingdet
26kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing23 appointeesnmod
27,,PUNCT_28 actingpunct
28actingactVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 composedadvcl
29ononADP_31 advicecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 advicedet
31adviceadviceNOUNNumber=Sing28 actingobl
32ofofADP_35 ministercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 ministerdet
34primeprimeADJDegree=Pos35 ministeramod
35ministerministerNOUNNumber=Sing31 advicenmod
36..PUNCT_11 composedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1composepresent · passive22 principal chiefsthe upper house of parliament and the Senate11 appointees of the king oblvn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2ispresentmembershiphereditary propertytree rules
3actgerund22 principal chiefs not said herethe advice of the prime ministervn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on advice=Eventuality

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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