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title: The Botswana government gave the United States permission to explore… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: The Botswana government gave the United States permission to explore the possibility of establishing an Africa Command (AFRICOM) base in the country. Who acts: Botswana government, possibility. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 185

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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 Botswana government gave the United States permission to explore the possibility of establishing an Africa Command (AFRICOM) base in the country.

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**Who acts:** Botswana government, possibility · **What happens:** give, explore, establish · **To what, where:** States permission, possibility, Command base, country

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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 (Botswana government, possibility), 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:185
# text = The Botswana government gave the United States permission to explore the possibility of establishing an Africa Command (AFRICOM) base in the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Command	Command	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	AFRICOM	AFRICOM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Botswana government | the States permission |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | the Botswana government *not said here* | the possibility |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent possibility=Location |
| 3 | **establish** | gerund | the possibility *not said here* | a Command base |  | the country |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent base=Patient |

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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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