--- title: During the city's construction, the chairman of Gaberones Township A… — Gaborone · tree and pragmatics description: During the city's construction, the chairman of Gaberones Township Authority, Geoffrey Cornish, likened the layout of the city to a "brandy glass" with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses in the "mall", a strip of land extending from the base. Who acts: strip, city. 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During the city's construction, the chairman of Gaberones Township Authority, Geoffrey Cornish, likened the layout of the city to a "brandy glass" with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses in the "mall", a strip of land extending from the base. **Who acts:** strip, city · **What happens:** liken, extend, construct · **To what, where:** layout, mall, base 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 (strip, city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:33 # text = During the city's construction, the chairman of Gaberones Township Authority, Geoffrey Cornish, likened the layout of the city to a "brandy glass" with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses in the "mall", a strip of land extending from the base. 1 During during ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 chairman chairman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Gaberones Gaberones PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 Township Township PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 Authority Authority PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Geoffrey Geoffrey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 Cornish Cornish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 17 likened liken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 layout layout NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 brandy brandy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 offices office NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 mall mall NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 extending extend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 52 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **liken** | past | | the layout of the city | | the mall and a strip of land | during the city's construction | to a brandy glass; with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses | tree rules | | 2 | **extend** | gerund | a strip of land *not said here* | | | the base | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **construct** | | the city | | | | | | nom construction «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gaborone/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gaborone/34/) - ↑ back to [Gaborone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Gaborone/)