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title: The city's products once included candles, carpets and mohair produc… — Maseru · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's products once included candles, carpets and mohair products but these have been overshadowed by South African industries. Who acts: products, South African industries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maseru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maseru, sentence 55

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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 city's products once included candles, carpets and mohair products but these have been overshadowed by South African industries.

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**Who acts:** products, South African industries · **What happens:** include, overshadow · **To what, where:** candles, these

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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 (products, South African industries), 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:55
# text = The city's products once included candles, carpets and mohair products but these have been overshadowed by South African industries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	mohair	mohair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | past | the city's products | candles and carpets and mohair products |  |  |  | once *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme |
| 2 | **overshadow** | present · perfect · passive | South African industries | these |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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