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title: Botswana's music is mostly vocal and performed, sometimes without dr… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: Botswana's music is mostly vocal and performed, sometimes without drums depending on the occasion; it also makes heavy use of string instruments. Who acts: music, drums. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 293

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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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Botswana's music is mostly vocal and performed, sometimes without drums depending on the occasion; it also makes heavy use of string instruments.

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**Who acts:** music, drums · **What happens:** be, perform, depend, make, use · **To what, where:** heavy use, string instruments

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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 (music, drums), 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:293
# text = Botswana's music is mostly vocal and performed, sometimes without drums depending on the occasion; it also makes heavy use of string instruments.
1	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	depending	depend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Botswana's music |  |  |  |  | mostly, vocal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | participle | Botswana's music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without drums | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **depend** | gerund | drums *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the occasion | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on occasion=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | music | heavy use of string instruments |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material use=Product |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | string instruments |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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