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title: Maseru initially functioned as the state's administrative capital be… — Maseru · tree and pragmatics
description: Maseru initially functioned as the state's administrative capital between 1869 and 1871, before administration of Basutoland was transferred to the Cape Colony. Who acts: Maseru. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maseru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maseru, sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Maseru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maseru), 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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Maseru initially functioned as the state's administrative capital between 1869 and 1871, before administration of Basutoland was transferred to the Cape Colony.

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**Who acts:** Maseru · **What happens:** function, transfer, administer · **To what, where:** administration, Cape Colony, Basutoland

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maseru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maseru), 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:Maseru:12
# text = Maseru initially functioned as the state's administrative capital between 1869 and 1871, before administration of Basutoland was transferred to the Cape Colony.
1	Maseru	Maseru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	functioned	function	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1869	1869	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Basutoland	Basutoland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **function** | participle | Maseru |  |  |  |  | as the state's administrative capital; between 1869; initially *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute |
| 2 | **transfer** | past · passive |  | administration of Basutoland | the Cape Colony |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to colony=Recipient |
| 3 | **administer** |  |  | Basutoland |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: of=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, «Maseru», 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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