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Namibia, sentence 74

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.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the accelerated decolonisation of Africa and mounting pressure on the remaining colonial powers to grant their colonies self-determination resulted in the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa.

What happens: accelerate, mount, remain, grant, result, decolonise · To what, where: pressure, remaining colonial powers, colonies, self determination, formation, Africa

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

casedetamodccamodconjpunctdetamodconjcasenmodccconjobjcasedetamodcompoundoblmarkaclnmod:possobjcompoundpunctnmodaclcasedetoblcaseamodamodnmodcasecompoundcompoundnmodpunctrootDuringADPtheDETlateADJ1950sNOUNandCCONJearlyADJ1960sNOUN,PUNCTtheDETacceleratedVERBdecolonisationNOUNofADPAfricaPROPNandCCONJmountingVERBpressureNOUNonADPtheDETremainingVERBcolonialNOUNpowersNOUNtoPARTgrantVERBtheirPRONcoloniesNOUNselfNOUN-PUNCTdeterminationNOUNresultedVERBinADPtheDETformationNOUNofADPnascentADJnationalistADJpartiesNOUNinADPSouthPROPNWestPROPNAfricaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DuringduringADP_4 1950scase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 1950sdet
3latelateADJDegree=Pos4 1950samod
41950s1950NOUNNumber=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Cardrootroot
5andandCCONJ_7 1960scc
6earlyearlyADJDegree=Pos7 1960samod
71960s1960sNOUNNumber=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card4 1950sconj
8,,PUNCT_11 decolonisationpunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 decolonisationdet
10acceleratedaccelerateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 decolonisationamod
11decolonisationdecolonisationNOUNNumber=Sing4 1950sconj
12ofofADP_13 Africacase
13AfricaAfricaPROPNNumber=Sing11 decolonisationnmod
14andandCCONJ_15 mountingcc
15mountingmountVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 decolonisationconj
16pressurepressureNOUNNumber=Sing15 mountingobj
17ononADP_21 powerscase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 powersdet
19remainingremainVERBVerbForm=Ger21 powersamod
20colonialcolonialNOUNNumber=Sing21 powerscompound
21powerspowerNOUNNumber=Plur15 mountingobl
22totoPART_23 grantmark
23grantgrantVERBVerbForm=Inf21 powersacl
24theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 coloniesnmod:poss
25coloniescolonyNOUNNumber=Plur23 grantobj
26selfselfNOUNNumber=Sing28 determinationcompound
27--PUNCT_26 selfpunct
28determinationdeterminationNOUNNumber=Sing25 coloniesnmod
29resultedresultVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 determinationacl
30ininADP_32 formationcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 formationdet
32formationformationNOUNNumber=Sing29 resultedobl
33ofofADP_36 partiescase
34nascentnascentADJDegree=Pos36 partiesamod
35nationalistnationalistADJDegree=Pos36 partiesamod
36partiespartyNOUNNumber=Plur32 formationnmod
37ininADP_40 Africacase
38SouthSouthPROPNNumber=Sing40 Africacompound
39WestWestPROPNNumber=Sing40 Africacompound
40AfricaAfricaPROPNNumber=Sing36 partiesnmod
41..PUNCT_4 1950spunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1accelerateparticiplevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2mountgerundpressurethe remaining colonial powersvn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on power=Destination
3remaingerundvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4grantto-infinitivepeople's colonies self determinationvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent colony=Theme
5resultparticipleself determination not said herethe formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africavn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in formation=Location
7decoloniseAfricanom decolonisation «act transitive»: of=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Namibia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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