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title: The Botswana national football team plays in the National Stadium, b… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Botswana national football team plays in the National Stadium, but has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, even though they recently qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Gabon in January 2012. Who acts: Botswana, national football team, teams. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone»
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# Gaborone, sentence 140

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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 Botswana national football team plays in the National Stadium, but has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, even though they recently qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Gabon in January 2012.

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**Who acts:** Botswana, national football team, teams · **What happens:** team, play, have, qualify, hold · **To what, where:** National Stadium, qualified, Africa Cup, Gabon

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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 (Botswana, national football team, teams), 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:140
# text = The Botswana national football team plays in the National Stadium, but has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, even though they recently qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Gabon in January 2012.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Stadium	Stadium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	qualified	qualify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Gabon	Gabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **team** |  | Botswana |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | the national football team |  |  | the National Stadium |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the national football team *not said here* | qualified for the FIFA World Cup |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent qualified=Patient |
| 4 | **qualify** | past | teams *= team* |  |  |  |  | for the Africa Cup of Nations; recently *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hold** | participle |  | the Africa Cup of Nations *not said here* |  | Gabon | january |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gabon=Location |

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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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