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title: On 13 May 2020, according to the health ministry, Lesotho became the… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: On 13 May 2020, according to the health ministry, Lesotho became the last African nation to report a COVID-19 case. Who acts: Lesotho. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 80

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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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On 13 May 2020, according to the health ministry, Lesotho became the last African nation to report a COVID-19 case.

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**Who acts:** Lesotho · **What happens:** accord, become, report · **To what, where:** last African nation, COVID case

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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), 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:80
# text = On 13 May 2020, according to the health ministry, Lesotho became the last African nation to report a COVID-19 case.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ministry	ministry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
24	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | Lesotho | the last African nation |  |  | may | accord the health ministry | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **report** | to-infinitive | Lesotho *not said here* | a COVID case |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient |

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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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