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title: In early 2010 the Government tender board announced that "henceforth… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: In early 2010 the Government tender board announced that "henceforth 100 per cent of all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced, without exception, from within Namibia". Who acts: Government tender board. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 249

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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 early 2010 the Government tender board announced that "henceforth 100 per cent of all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced, without exception, from within Namibia".

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**Who acts:** Government tender board · **What happens:** announce, source · **To what, where:** early 2010, 100 per cent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Government tender board), 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:249
# text = In early 2010 the Government tender board announced that "henceforth 100 per cent of all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced, without exception, from within Namibia".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	unskilled	unskilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	semi-skilled	semi-skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	sourced	source	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	within	within	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Namibia	Namibia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Government tender board |  |  | early 2010 |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **source** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | 100 per cent of all unskilled labour |  |  |  | without exception; Namibia *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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