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title: During the same period, the concentration of calcium carbonate (CaCO… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics
description: During the same period, the concentration of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was 57.73 milligrams per litre, slightly over Botswana's ideal concentration which means the water is hard. Who acts: concentration carbonate, ideal concentration, water. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Gaborone» with its dependency t
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# Gaborone, sentence 269

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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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During the same period, the concentration of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was 57.73 milligrams per litre, slightly over Botswana's ideal concentration which means the water is hard.

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**Who acts:** concentration carbonate, ideal concentration, water · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** 57.73 milligrams · **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 (concentration carbonate, ideal concentration, water), 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:269
# text = During the same period, the concentration of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was 57.73 milligrams per litre, slightly over Botswana's ideal concentration which means the water is hard.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	calcium	calcium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	carbonate	carbonate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	CaCO3	CaCO3	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	57.73	57.73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	milligrams	milligram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	per	per	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | concentration carbonate during the same period | 57.73 milligrams |  |  |  | per litre; Botswana's ideal concentration *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Botswana's ideal concentration |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

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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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