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title: This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreat… — Botswana · tree and pragmatics
description: This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled by the failure of the Jameson Raid in January 1896. Who acts: plan, Tswana leaders, failure, Jameson Raid. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Botswana» with its depe
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# Botswana, sentence 77

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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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This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled by the failure of the Jameson Raid in January 1896.

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**Who acts:** plan, Tswana leaders, failure, Jameson Raid · **What happens:** be, tour, foil, fail · **To what, where:** way, England, protest, plan

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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 (plan, Tswana leaders, failure, Jameson Raid), 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:77
# text = This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled by the failure of the Jameson Raid in January 1896.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fruition	fruition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Tswana	Tswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	toured	tour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	foiled	foil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Jameson	Jameson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Raid	Raid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	1896	1896	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this plan |  |  | plan's way |  | to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tour** | past | Tswana leaders | England |  | protest |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent england=Location |
| 3 | **foil** | past · passive | the failure of the Jameson Raid | this plan |  |  | january | eventually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** |  | the Jameson Raid |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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