Namibia, sentence 443
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.
Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country.
What happens: rank, reach, be, position · To what, where: country, upper quarter, position, par
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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | compound |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ranked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 ranked | advmod |
| 9 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 quarter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quarter | det |
| 12 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quarter | amod |
| 13 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Index | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Index | det |
| 16 | Press | Press | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Index | compound |
| 17 | Freedom | Freedom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Index | compound |
| 18 | Index | Index | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 quarter | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Reporters | case |
| 20 | Reporters | Reporter | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Index | nmod |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 Borders | case |
| 22 | Borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ranked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reaching | punct |
| 24 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ranked | advcl |
| 25 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reaching | obj |
| 26 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 position | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 2010 | case |
| 28 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 21 | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 par | punct |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 par | cop |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 par | case |
| 32 | par | par | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reaching | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Canada | case |
| 34 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 par | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 country | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 37 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 positioned | advmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 best | punct |
| 39 | positioned | position | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 country | amod |
| 40 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 country | amod |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 par | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | participle · passive | the country | the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters | year | without Borders; usually property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | reach | gerund | position | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent position=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | par and the positioned African country | with Canada; the positioned African country conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | position | participle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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