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title: About 4,000 commercial farmers own almost half of Namibia's arable l… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: About 4,000 commercial farmers own almost half of Namibia's arable land. Who acts: 4,000 commercial farmers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 275

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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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About 4,000 commercial farmers own almost half of Namibia's arable land.

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**Who acts:** 4,000 commercial farmers · **What happens:** own · **To what, where:** half

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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 (4,000 commercial farmers), 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:275
# text = About 4,000 commercial farmers own almost half of Namibia's arable land.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Namibia	Namibia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	arable	arable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | 4,000 commercial farmers | half of Namibia's arable land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot half=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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