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title: In more recent history, the Tlokwa left the Magaliesberg ranges to s… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: In more recent history, the Tlokwa left the Magaliesberg ranges to settle in the area around 1880, and called the settlement Moshaweng. Who acts: Tlokwa, Magaliesberg. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gaborone, sentence 18

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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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In more recent history, the Tlokwa left the Magaliesberg ranges to settle in the area around 1880, and called the settlement Moshaweng.

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**Who acts:** Tlokwa, Magaliesberg · **What happens:** leave, range, settle, call · **To what, where:** more recent history, area, settlement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tlokwa, Magaliesberg), 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:18
# text = In more recent history, the Tlokwa left the Magaliesberg ranges to settle in the area around 1880, and called the settlement Moshaweng.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tlokwa	Tlokwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Magaliesberg	Magaliesberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ranges	range	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1880	1880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	Moshaweng	Moshaweng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the Tlokwa |  |  |  |  | in more recent history *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in history=Result |
| 2 | **range** | present | the Magaliesberg |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive | the Magaliesberg *not said here* |  |  | the area |  | around 1880 | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |
| 4 | **call** | past | the Tlokwa *not said here* | the settlement |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent settlement=Recipient |

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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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