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title: Moeketsi Majoro, the economist and former Minister of Development Pl… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: Moeketsi Majoro, the economist and former Minister of Development Planning, was elected as Thabane's successor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 79

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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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Moeketsi Majoro, the economist and former Minister of Development Planning, was elected as Thabane's successor.

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**What happens:** elect · **To what, where:** Moeketsi

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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:79
# text = Moeketsi Majoro, the economist and former Minister of Development Planning, was elected as Thabane's successor.
1	Moeketsi	Moeketsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Majoro	Majoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	economist	economist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Planning	Planning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Thabane	Thabane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Moeketsi |  |  |  | as Thabane's successor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as successor=Attribute |

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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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