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title: The Lutherans and the London Missionary Society both became establis… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lutherans and the London Missionary Society both became established in the country by 1856. Who acts: Lutherans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Botswana, sentence 66

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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 Lutherans and the London Missionary Society both became established in the country by 1856.

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**Who acts:** Lutherans · **What happens:** become, establish · **To what, where:** country

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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 (Lutherans), 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:66
# text = The Lutherans and the London Missionary Society both became established in the country by 1856.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lutherans	Lutheran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Missionary	Missionary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1856	1856	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Lutherans and the London Missionary Society |  |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | participle | the Lutherans and the London Missionary Society *not said here* |  |  | the country |  | by 1856 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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