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title: In 2007, Lesotho experienced a drought and was advised by the United… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2007, Lesotho experienced a drought and was advised by the United Nations to declare a state of emergency to get aid from international organizations. Who acts: Lesotho, United Nations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 172

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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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In 2007, Lesotho experienced a drought and was advised by the United Nations to declare a state of emergency to get aid from international organizations.

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**Who acts:** Lesotho, United Nations · **What happens:** experience, advise, declare, get · **To what, where:** drought, 2007, state, aid, international organizations

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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: who acts (Lesotho, United Nations), 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:172
# text = In 2007, Lesotho experienced a drought and was advised by the United Nations to declare a state of emergency to get aid from international organizations.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past | Lesotho | a drought |  | 2007 |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drought=Stimulus |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · passive | the United Nations |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the United Nations *not said here* | a state of emergency |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the United Nations *not said here* | aid |  | international organizations |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Theme from organization=Source |

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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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