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title: There is 1 permanent waterhole throughout the year which is visited… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: There is 1 permanent waterhole throughout the year which is visited by numerous species of waterbirds and migrants. Who acts: 1 permanent waterhole, numerous species. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gaborone, sentence 163

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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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There is 1 permanent waterhole throughout the year which is visited by numerous species of waterbirds and migrants.

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**Who acts:** 1 permanent waterhole, numerous species · **What happens:** be, visit · **To what, where:** year

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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 (1 permanent waterhole, numerous species), 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:163
# text = There is 1 permanent waterhole throughout the year which is visited by numerous species of waterbirds and migrants.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	waterhole	waterhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	waterbirds	waterbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | 1 permanent waterhole throughout the year |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | present · passive | numerous species of waterbirds and migrants | the year |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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, «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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