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title: In 1998, Namibia Defence Force (NDF) troops were sent to the Democra… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1998, Namibia Defence Force (NDF) troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) contingent. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Namibia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia), 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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In 1998, Namibia Defence Force (NDF) troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) contingent.

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**What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Force troops, 1998

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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.

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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:Namibia:112
# text = In 1998, Namibia Defence Force (NDF) troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) contingent.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Namibia	Namibia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	NDF	NDF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	16	compound	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	SADC	SADC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	contingent	contingent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | Force troops |  | 1998 |  | to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; as part of a Southern African Development Community and contingent | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1998=Destination |

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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, «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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