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title: With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rain… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi Strip in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast. Who acts: highest rainfall. A sentence of Wiki
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# Namibia, sentence 170

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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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With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi Strip in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast.

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**Who acts:** highest rainfall · **What happens:** occur, decrease · **To what, where:** Caprivi Strip

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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 (highest rainfall), 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:170
# text = With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi Strip in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	350	350	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mm	mm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	per	per	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	annum	annum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Caprivi	Caprivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Strip	Strip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	mm	mm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
27	per	per	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	annum	annum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	decreases	decrease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	westerly	westerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	southwesterly	southwesterly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
46	per	per	ADP	IN	_	45	obl	_	_
47	annum	annum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the highest rainfall |  |  | the Caprivi Strip |  | with a average rainfall of 350 mm per annum; in the northeast | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in strip=Location |
| 2 | **decrease** | present | the highest rainfall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to little *result*; as 50 mm and less annum at the coast; in a westerly direction | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient in direction=Attribute to little=Result |

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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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