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title: 8564000 m3 of water was bought for domestic use, and 4040000 m3 of w… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: 8564000 m3 of water was bought for domestic use, and 4040000 m3 of water was bought by the commercial and industrial sectors. Who acts: commercial sectors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Gaborone, sentence 263

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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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8564000 m3 of water was bought for domestic use, and 4040000 m3 of water was bought by the commercial and industrial sectors.

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**Who acts:** commercial sectors · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** 8564000 m3, 4040000

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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 (commercial sectors), 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:263
# text = 8564000 m3 of water was bought for domestic use, and 4040000 m3 of water was bought by the commercial and industrial sectors.
1	8564000	8564000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	m3	m3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	4040000	4040000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	m3	m3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	list	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · passive |  | 8564000 m3 |  |  |  | of water; for domestic use | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for use=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **buy** | past · passive | the commercial sectors | 4040000 |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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