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title: The members of parliament choose the president, and the president th… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: The members of parliament choose the president, and the president then appoints the vice-president and cabinet members. Who acts: members, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 153

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From Wikipedia, [«Botswana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The members of parliament choose the president, and the president then appoints the vice-president and cabinet members.

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**Who acts:** members, president · **What happens:** choose, appoint · **To what, where:** president, vice-president

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Botswana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (members, president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Botswana:153
# text = The members of parliament choose the president, and the president then appoints the vice-president and cabinet members.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	appoints	appoint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vice-president	vice-president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present | the members of parliament | the president |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |
| 2 | **appoint** | present | the president | the vice-president and cabinet members |  |  | then |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vice-president=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Botswana», 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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