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title: Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution. Who acts: Namibia, protection. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 182

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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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Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution.

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**Who acts:** Namibia, protection · **What happens:** be, address, conserve, constitute · **To what, where:** one, conservation, constitution, natural resources

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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 (Namibia, protection), 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:182
# text = Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution.
1	Namibia	namibia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
13	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Namibia | one |  |  |  | of few countries in the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** | to-infinitive |  | conservation of natural resources and protection |  | protection's constitution |  | specifically *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conservation=Destination |
| 3 | **conserve** |  |  | natural resources |  |  |  |  | nom conservation «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **constitute** |  | protection |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: 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, «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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