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title: The Lesotho National Security Service (LNSS) is charged with the pro… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
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# Lesotho, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Lesotho»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho), 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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The Lesotho National Security Service (LNSS) is charged with the protection of national security.

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**What happens:** charge, protect · **To what, where:** Lesotho National Security Service, national security

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lesotho». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Lesotho:128
# text = The Lesotho National Security Service (LNSS) is charged with the protection of national security.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	LNSS	LNSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present · passive |  | the Lesotho National Security Service |  |  |  | with the protection of national security | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with protection=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** |  |  | national security |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Lesotho», 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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