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title: Eswatini's most well-known cultural event is the annual Umhlanga Ree… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: Eswatini's most well-known cultural event is the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance. Who acts: known cultural event. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 368

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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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Eswatini's most well-known cultural event is the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance.

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**Who acts:** known cultural event · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** annual Reed Dance

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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 (known cultural event), 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:368
# text = Eswatini's most well-known cultural event is the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance.
1	Eswatini	Eswatini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	Umhlanga	Umhlanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Reed	Reed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Eswatini's known cultural event | the annual Reed Dance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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