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title: The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 m. Average temperatu… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 m. Average temperatures and temperature ranges increase further inland from the cold Atlantic waters, while the lingering coastal fogs slowly diminish. Who acts: Great Escarpment, Average temperatures, lingering. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» wit
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# Namibia, sentence 133

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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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The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 m. Average temperatures and temperature ranges increase further inland from the cold Atlantic waters, while the lingering coastal fogs slowly diminish.

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**Who acts:** Great Escarpment, Average temperatures, lingering · **What happens:** rise, increase, diminish · **To what, where:** 2000, cold Atlantic waters

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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: who acts (Great Escarpment, Average temperatures, lingering), 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:133
# text = The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 m. Average temperatures and temperature ranges increase further inland from the cold Atlantic waters, while the lingering coastal fogs slowly diminish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Escarpment	escarpment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	m.	m.	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	increase	increase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	further	further	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lingering	lingering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fogs	fog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	diminish	diminish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | the Great Escarpment |  |  | 2000 |  | swiftly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to 2000=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **increase** | present | Average temperatures and temperature ranges |  |  | the cold Atlantic waters |  | inland *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **diminish** | present | the lingering and coastal fogs |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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, «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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