Namibia, sentence 41
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 1870, Finnish missionaries came to the northern part of Namibia to spread the Lutheran religion among the Owambo and Kavango people.
Who acts: Finnish missionaries · What happens: come, spread · To what, where: 1870, Lutheran religion
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 (Finnish missionaries), 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 1870 | case |
| 2 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1870 | punct |
| 4 | Finnish | finnish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 missionaries | amod |
| 5 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 part | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 part | amod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Namibia | case |
| 12 | Namibia | Namibia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spread | mark |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 religion | det |
| 16 | Lutheran | Lutheran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 religion | compound |
| 17 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 20 | Owambo | Owambo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 people | compound |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Kavango | cc |
| 22 | Kavango | Kavango | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Owambo | conj |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spread | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Finnish missionaries | 1870 | to the northern part of Namibia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | spread | to-infinitive | Finnish missionaries not said here | the Lutheran religion | among the Owambo people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent religion=Theme among people=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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