Namibia, sentence 112
From Wikipedia, «Namibia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1998, Namibia Defence Force (NDF) troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) contingent.
What happens: send · To what, where: Force troops, 1998
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Namibia». 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1998 | case |
| 2 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 sent | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1998 | punct |
| 4 | Namibia | Namibia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Force | compound |
| 5 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Force | compound |
| 6 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 troops | compound |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 NDF | punct |
| 8 | NDF | NDF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Force | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 NDF | punct |
| 10 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Republic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Republic | det |
| 15 | Democratic | Democratic | PROPN | _ | 16 Republic | compound |
| 16 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Congo | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Congo | det |
| 19 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Republic | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Community | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Community | det |
| 24 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Community | amod |
| 25 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Community | amod |
| 26 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Community | compound |
| 27 | Community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 SADC | punct |
| 29 | SADC | SADC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Community | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 SADC | punct |
| 31 | contingent | contingent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Force troops | 1998 | to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; as part of a Southern African Development Community and contingent | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1998=Destination |
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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