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title: The product is inexpensive compared to many similar devices, which c… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: The product is inexpensive compared to many similar devices, which can start at around $600. Who acts: product, many similar devices. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 349

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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 product is inexpensive compared to many similar devices, which can start at around $600.

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**Who acts:** product, many similar devices · **What happens:** be, compare, start

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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 (product, many similar devices), 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:349
# text = The product is inexpensive compared to many similar devices, which can start at around $600.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	inexpensive	inexpensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	$	$	SYM	$	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the product |  |  |  |  | inexpensive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | participle | the product *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to many similar devices | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | can | many similar devices |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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