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title: The annual population growth rates remained around 7% for several de… — Maseru · tree and pragmatics
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# Maseru, sentence 19

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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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The annual population growth rates remained around 7% for several decades, before tapering off to around 3.5% between 1986 and 1996.

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**What happens:** remain around, taper off · **To what, where:** annual population growth rates

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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: 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:19
# text = The annual population growth rates remained around 7% for several decades, before tapering off to around 3.5% between 1986 and 1996.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	tapering	taper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	3.5	3.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain around** | participle |  | the annual population growth rates *not said here* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **taper off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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