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title: In 1967, a 601 carat diamond (Lesotho Brown) was discovered in the m… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1967, a 601 carat diamond (Lesotho Brown) was discovered in the mountains by a Mosotho woman. Who acts: Mosotho woman. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 219

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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 1967, a 601 carat diamond (Lesotho Brown) was discovered in the mountains by a Mosotho woman.

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**Who acts:** Mosotho woman · **What happens:** discover · **To what, where:** carat diamond, 1967

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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 (Mosotho woman), 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:219
# text = In 1967, a 601 carat diamond (Lesotho Brown) was discovered in the mountains by a Mosotho woman.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	601	601	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	carat	carat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Mosotho	Mosotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive | a Mosotho woman | a carat diamond |  | 1967 |  | in the mountains | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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