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title: It remained under direct rule by a governor, while effective interna… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: It remained under direct rule by a governor, while effective internal power was wielded by tribal chiefs. Who acts: name, tribal chiefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 36

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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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It remained under direct rule by a governor, while effective internal power was wielded by tribal chiefs.

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**Who acts:** name, tribal chiefs · **What happens:** remain, wield · **To what, where:** direct rule, effective internal power

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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 (name, tribal chiefs), 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:36
# text = It remained under direct rule by a governor, while effective internal power was wielded by tribal chiefs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	wielded	wield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | name |  |  | direct rule |  | by a governor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 2 | **wield** | past · passive | tribal chiefs | effective internal power |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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