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title: The book series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, written by Scott… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: The book series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, written by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, is set in Gaborone. Who acts: book. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gaborone, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Gaborone»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaborone), 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 book series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, written by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, is set in Gaborone.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** sery, write, set · **To what, where:** No. Ladies, Gaborone

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Gaborone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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:Gaborone:119
# text = The book series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, written by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, is set in Gaborone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	series	sery	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	Ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Detective	Detective	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Agency	Agency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	McCall	McCall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Gaborone	Gaborone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sery** | present | the book | the No. Ladies  Detective Agency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the No. Ladies  Detective Agency *not said here* |  |  |  | by Scottish author | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | present · passive | the book *not said here* |  |  | Gaborone |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in gaborone=Destination |

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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, «Gaborone», 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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