Namibia, sentence 170
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.
With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi Strip in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast.
Who acts: highest rainfall · What happens: occur, decrease · To what, where: Caprivi Strip
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 (highest rainfall), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 rainfall | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rainfall | det |
| 3 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rainfall | amod |
| 4 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occurs | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mm | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 350 | advmod |
| 7 | 350 | 350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 mm | nummod |
| 8 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rainfall | nmod |
| 9 | per | per | ADP | _ | 10 annum | case |
| 10 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mm | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rainfall | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rainfall | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 rainfall | amod |
| 14 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occurs | nsubj |
| 15 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Strip | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Strip | det |
| 18 | Caprivi | Caprivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Strip | compound |
| 19 | Strip | Strip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 occurs | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 northeast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 northeast | det |
| 22 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occurs | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 mm | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 600 | advmod |
| 25 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 mm | nummod |
| 26 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 northeast | appos |
| 27 | per | per | ADP | _ | 28 annum | case |
| 28 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mm | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 mm | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 decreases | cc |
| 31 | decreases | decrease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 occurs | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 direction | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 direction | det |
| 34 | westerly | westerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 direction | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 southwesterly | cc |
| 36 | southwesterly | southwesterly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 westerly | conj |
| 37 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 decreases | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 little | case |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 little | advmod |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 decreases | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 mm | case |
| 42 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 mm | nummod |
| 43 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 decreases | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 annum | cc |
| 45 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 annum | amod |
| 46 | per | per | ADP | _ | 45 less | obl |
| 47 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 mm | conj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 coast | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 coast | det |
| 50 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 annum | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the highest rainfall | the Caprivi Strip | with a average rainfall of 350 mm per annum; in the northeast | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in strip=Location | |||
| 2 | decrease | present | the highest rainfall not said here | to little result; as 50 mm and less annum at the coast; in a westerly direction | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient in direction=Attribute to little=Result |
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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