Namibia, sentence 133
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.
The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 m. Average temperatures and temperature ranges increase further inland from the cold Atlantic waters, while the lingering coastal fogs slowly diminish.
Who acts: Great Escarpment, Average temperatures, lingering · What happens: rise, increase, diminish · To what, where: 2000, cold Atlantic waters
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: who acts (Great Escarpment, Average temperatures, lingering), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Escarpment | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Escarpment | amod |
| 3 | Escarpment | escarpment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | nsubj |
| 4 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 rises | advmod |
| 5 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 2000 | case |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 2000 | advmod |
| 8 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 rises | obl |
| 9 | m. | m. | PUNCT | _ | 11 temperatures | punct |
| 10 | Average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 temperatures | amod |
| 11 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 increase | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ranges | cc |
| 13 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ranges | compound |
| 14 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 temperatures | conj |
| 15 | increase | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rises | parataxis |
| 16 | further | further | ADV | _ | 17 inland | advmod |
| 17 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 15 increase | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 waters | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waters | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 waters | amod |
| 21 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 waters | compound |
| 22 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 increase | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 diminish | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 diminish | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lingering | det |
| 26 | lingering | lingering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 diminish | nsubj |
| 27 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fogs | amod |
| 28 | fogs | fog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lingering | conj |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 30 diminish | advmod |
| 30 | diminish | diminish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 increase | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the Great Escarpment | 2000 | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 2000=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | increase | present | Average temperatures and temperature ranges | the cold Atlantic waters | inland property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | diminish | present | the lingering and coastal fogs | slowly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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