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title: The word Namib itself is of Khoi origin and means "vast place". — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: The word Namib itself is of Khoi origin and means "vast place". Who acts: word. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 26

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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 word Namib itself is of Khoi origin and means "vast place".

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** vast place

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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 (word), 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:26
# text = The word Namib itself is of Khoi origin and means "vast place".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Namib	Namib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Khoi	Khoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the word |  |  |  |  | of Khoi origin | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the word *not said here* | vast place |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |

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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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