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title: However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. Who acts: climate, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatini» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eswatini, sentence 4

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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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However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.

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**Who acts:** climate, country · **What happens:** be, range, acclimate · **To what, where:** cool highveld

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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 (climate, country), 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:4
# text = However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	topography	topography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	diverse	diverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	highveld	highveld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	lowveld	lowveld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | country's climate and topography |  |  |  |  | diverse, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **range** | gerund | country's climate and topography *not said here* |  |  | a cool highveld |  | to a hot lowveld | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from highveld=Location |
| 3 | **acclimate** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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