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title: However, significant issues include government corruption, policy in… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, significant issues include government corruption, policy inertia and prison overcrowding. Who acts: significant issues, policy inertia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 222

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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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However, significant issues include government corruption, policy inertia and prison overcrowding.

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**Who acts:** significant issues, policy inertia · **What happens:** include, overcrowd · **To what, where:** government corruption

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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 (significant issues, policy inertia), 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:222
# text = However, significant issues include government corruption, policy inertia and prison overcrowding.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	inertia	inertia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	overcrowding	overcrowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | significant issues | government corruption |  |  |  | however *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corruption=Theme |
| 2 | **overcrowd** | gerund | policy inertia and prison *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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