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title: His stature grew with time, and the Swazi royal leadership was succe… — Eswatini · tree and pragmatics
description: His stature grew with time, and the Swazi royal leadership was successful in resisting the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland into the Union of South Africa. Who acts: stature, Swazi royal leadership. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eswatin
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# Eswatini, sentence 84

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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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His stature grew with time, and the Swazi royal leadership was successful in resisting the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland into the Union of South Africa.

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**Who acts:** stature, Swazi royal leadership · **What happens:** grow, be, resist, weaken, incorporate · **To what, where:** weakening power, Union, Swaziland

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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 (stature, Swazi royal leadership), 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:84
# text = His stature grew with time, and the Swazi royal leadership was successful in resisting the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland into the Union of South Africa.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Swazi	Swazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	resisting	resist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	weakening	weaken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	incorporation	incorporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Swaziland	Swaziland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Sobhuza's stature |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Swazi royal leadership |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resist** | gerund | the Swazi royal leadership *not said here* | the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland |  | the Union of South Africa |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weaken** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **incorporate** |  |  | Swaziland |  |  |  |  | nom incorporation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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