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title: They compare more favourably with firms from lower middle income cou… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: They compare more favourably with firms from lower middle income countries but are hampered by inadequate governance arrangements and infrastructure. Who acts: firms, inadequate governance arrangements. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 269

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From Wikipedia, [«Eswatini»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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They compare more favourably with firms from lower middle income countries but are hampered by inadequate governance arrangements and infrastructure.

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**Who acts:** firms, inadequate governance arrangements · **What happens:** compare, hamper · **To what, where:** more

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eswatini». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firms, inadequate governance arrangements), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Eswatini:269
# text = They compare more favourably with firms from lower middle income countries but are hampered by inadequate governance arrangements and infrastructure.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
4	favourably	favourably	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	firms	firm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hampered	hamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present | firms *= firm* | more |  |  |  | with firms from lower income countries; favourably *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient with firm=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **hamper** | present · passive | inadequate governance arrangements and infrastructure |  |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Eswatini», 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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