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title: This structure remained intact until 2006, when the government offic… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: This structure remained intact until 2006, when the government officially de-merged the territories, re-establishing Chobe as an independent administrative district. Who acts: structure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 199

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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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This structure remained intact until 2006, when the government officially de-merged the territories, re-establishing Chobe as an independent administrative district.

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**Who acts:** structure · **What happens:** remain, merge, re-establish · **To what, where:** government, Chobe

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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 (structure), 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:199
# text = This structure remained intact until 2006, when the government officially de-merged the territories, re-establishing Chobe as an independent administrative district.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	intact	intact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	re-establishing	re-establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	Chobe	Chobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | this structure |  |  |  | until 2006 | intact *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **merge** | participle · passive |  | the government |  |  |  | de *compound*; the territories *obj*; officially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **re-establish** | gerund |  | Chobe |  |  |  | as a independent administrative district | tree rules |

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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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