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title: GDP per capita grew from $439 in 1950 to $15,842 in 2018. — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: GDP per capita grew from $439 in 1950 to $15,842 in 2018. Who acts: GDP. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 202

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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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GDP per capita grew from $439 in 1950 to $15,842 in 2018.

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**Who acts:** GDP · **What happens:** grow

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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 (GDP), 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:202
# text = GDP per capita grew from $439 in 1950 to $15,842 in 2018.
1	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	per	per	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	capita	capita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	$	$	SYM	$	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	439	439	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	$	$	SYM	$	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	15,842	15,842	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | GDP per capita |  |  |  |  | in 2018; in 1950 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from $=Initial\_State in 1950=Attribute to $=Result |

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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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