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title: Specifically, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates are stea… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: Specifically, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates are steadily declining. Who acts: infant mortality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 265

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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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Specifically, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates are steadily declining.

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**Who acts:** infant mortality · **What happens:** decline

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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 (infant mortality), 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:265
# text = Specifically, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates are steadily declining.
1	Specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	maternal	maternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | present · progressive | infant mortality and maternal mortality rates |  |  |  |  | specifically, steadily *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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