--- title: After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics description: After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and Letsie III abdicated in favour of his father in 1995, and ascended the throne again when Moshoeshoe II died at the age of 57 in a supposed road accident when his car plunged off a mountain road on 15 January 1996. 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After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and Letsie III abdicated in favour of his father in 1995, and ascended the throne again when Moshoeshoe II died at the age of 57 in a supposed road accident when his car plunged off a mountain road on 15 January 1996. **Who acts:** Letsie, Moshoeshoe, car · **What happens:** protract, reinstate, abdicate, ascend, die, suppose · **To what, where:** BCP government, favour, throne, age, mountain road, 15 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 (Letsie, Moshoeshoe, car), 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:Lesotho:60 # text = After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and Letsie III abdicated in favour of his father in 1995, and ascended the throne again when Moshoeshoe II died at the age of 57 in a supposed road accident when his car plunged off a mountain road on 15 January 1996. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 protracted protract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 negotiations negotiation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 BCP BCP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 reinstated reinstate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 Letsie Letsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 13 abdicated abdicate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1995 1995 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 ascended ascend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 28 Moshoeshoe Moshoeshoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 57 57 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ _ 39 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 41 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 plunged plunge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 obl _ _ 51 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod:unmarked _ _ 52 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 50 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protract** | participle | | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reinstate** | past · passive | | the BCP government | | | after protracted negotiations | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **abdicate** | participle | Letsie | | | favour of Letsie's father | | in 1995 | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ascend** | past | | the throne | | | again | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory | | 5 | **die** | past | Moshoeshoe | | | | at the age of 57 | in a supposed road accident | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in accident=Attribute | | 6 | **suppose** | participle | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **plunge off** | past | Letsie's car | a mountain road | | 15 January | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | | 8 | **favour** | | | Letsie's father | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lesotho/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lesotho/61/) - ↑ back to [Lesotho](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lesotho/)