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title: 10%–20% of the population hold indigenous beliefs. — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: 10%–20% of the population hold indigenous beliefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 361

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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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10%–20% of the population hold indigenous beliefs.

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**What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** indigenous beliefs

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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: 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:361
# text = 10%–20% of the population hold indigenous beliefs.
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present |  | indigenous beliefs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=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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