Namibia, sentence 67
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.
South Africa declined to do so and instead requested permission from the UN to formally annex South West Africa, for which it received considerable criticism.
Who acts: South Africa, League · What happens: decline, not do, request, annex, receive · To what, where: South West Africa, considerable criticism
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 (South Africa, League), 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Africa | compound |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 declined | nsubj |
| 3 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 declined | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 permission | cc |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 9 requested | advmod |
| 9 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 permission | amod |
| 10 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 so | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 UN | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 UN | det |
| 13 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 permission | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 annex | mark |
| 15 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 16 annex | advmod |
| 16 | annex | annex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 permission | acl |
| 17 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 18 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 annex | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 received | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 received | nsubj |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 annex | conj |
| 25 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 criticism | amod |
| 26 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline | past | South Africa | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | South Africa not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | request | participle | instead property | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | annex | to-infinitive | South Africa not said here | South West Africa | formally property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent africa=Theme | |||
| 5 | receive | past | League | considerable criticism | which obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criticism=Theme |
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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