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title: Furthermore, they show that Botswana lost its status as a "liberal d… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: Furthermore, they show that Botswana lost its status as a "liberal democracy" in 2021, with its liberal, participatory and deliberative components decreasing "at a statistically significant level", with the latter component being noted as becoming "significantly worse". Who acts: elections, Botswana
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# Botswana, sentence 175

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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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Furthermore, they show that Botswana lost its status as a "liberal democracy" in 2021, with its liberal, participatory and deliberative components decreasing "at a statistically significant level", with the latter component being noted as becoming "significantly worse".

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**Who acts:** elections, Botswana, liberal components, democracy · **What happens:** show, lose, decrease, note, compose · **To what, where:** status, 2021, significant level, latter component · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (elections, Botswana, liberal components, democracy), 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:175
# text = Furthermore, they show that Botswana lost its status as a "liberal democracy" in 2021, with its liberal, participatory and deliberative components decreasing "at a statistically significant level", with the latter component being noted as becoming "significantly worse".
1	Furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
21	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	participatory	participatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	deliberative	deliberative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
26	components	component	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
27	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	statistically	statistically	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	becoming	becoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	significantly	significantly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | elections *= election* |  |  |  |  | furthermore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Botswana | democracy's status |  | 2021 |  | as a liberal democracy; with democracy's liberal components; the latter component *parataxis* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Eventuality |
| 3 | **decrease** | gerund | democracy's liberal components *not said here* |  |  | a significant level |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **note** | gerund · passive |  | the latter component *not said here* |  |  |  | as becoming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **compose** |  | democracy |  |  |  |  |  | nom component «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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