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title: During their rule between 1871 and 1884, Basutoland was treated simi… — Maseru · tree and pragmatics
description: During their rule between 1871 and 1884, Basutoland was treated similarly to territories that had been forcefully annexed, much to the chagrin of the Basotho. Who acts: capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maseru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maseru, sentence 13

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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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During their rule between 1871 and 1884, Basutoland was treated similarly to territories that had been forcefully annexed, much to the chagrin of the Basotho.

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**Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** treat, annex, rule, chagrin · **To what, where:** Basutoland, territories, Basotho

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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 (capital), 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:13
# text = During their rule between 1871 and 1884, Basutoland was treated similarly to territories that had been forcefully annexed, much to the chagrin of the Basotho.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	1884	1884	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Basutoland	Basutoland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	similarly	similarly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	forcefully	forcefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chagrin	chagrin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Basotho	Basotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past · passive |  | Basutoland |  |  | during capital's rule between 1871 | to territories; the chagrin of the Basotho *parataxis*; similarly *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to territory=be' |
| 2 | **annex** | past · perfect · passive |  | territories |  |  |  | forcefully *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |
| 3 | **rule** |  | capital |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **chagrin** |  |  | the Basotho |  |  |  |  | nom chagrin «feeling 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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